The Peacock "At Home": PD.120-1973.f.20

Materials used in production

Watercolour
Bodycolour
White bodycolour
Graphite
Gum arabic

Components of the work

Support composed of wove paper
Leaf Height 526 mm Width 366 mm

Techniques used in production

Watercolour : Watercolour with gum Arabic, bodycolour including white with traces of graphite on wove paper

Inscription or legends present

• Text: So they fill'd all their crops with the dainties before 'em, / And the tables were clear'd with the utmost decorum. / When they gaily had caroll'd till peep of the dawn, / The Lark gently hinted, 'twas time to be gone; / And his clarion so shrill, gave the company warning, / That Chanticleer scented the gates of the morning. / So they chirp'd, in full chorus, a friendly adieu; / And, with hearts quite as light as the plumage that grew / On their merry-thought bosoms, away they all flew... / Then long live the Peacock, in splendour unmatch'd. / Whose Ball shall be talke'd of, by Birds yet unhatch'd; / His praise let the Trumpeter loudly proclaim, / And the Goose tend her quill to transmit it to fame.
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.120-1973.f.20
Primary reference Number: 80544
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints