Collage
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Gold, Paper, Seaweed, Wood
Measurements
340 mm (H)382 mm (W)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1329847
Summary
Collage - Wooden frame with gold mount containing collection of seaweeds grouped into a woven basket with handwritten verse underneath 'Call us not weeds, we are flowers of the sea, for lovely and bright and gay tinted are we,...' Framed collection of seaweeds in woven basket with handwritten verse under 'Call us not weeds, we are flowers of the sea, For lovely and bright and gay tinted are we, Not nursed like flowers of a sunny parterre, where gales are but sighs of an evening air, our exquisite fragile and delicate forms are nursed by the ocean and rocked by the storms'. In notebook no.5, page 55 (1340945.5) Charles Wade refers to: 'Seventh Heaven no. 185 Panel A Basket of Seaweed in Rosewood Frame'. Includes sketch.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 5 Second Floor, 1944, Page 55