Memory of Clavering

1934

Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs English, 1876 - 1938

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About the Artwork

Title Memory of Clavering

Artwork Date 1934

Artist Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs

Life Dates 1876 - 1938

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. English

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

Dimensions Plate: 7 × 9 1/2 inches (17.8 × 24.1 cm) Sheet: 7 1/4 × 9 1/2 inches (18.4 × 24.1 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F1983.151

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Signed Signed on plate, lower right: F.L.G. In pencil, lower right: FLGriggs

Inscriptions Inscribed on plate, lower left to lower right, in 4 columns of 4 lines each: A Rose as faire as euer saw the North | Grewe in a little Garden all alone | A sweeter flowre did Nature nere put forth | Nor fairer Garden yet was neuer knowne | The Maydens danc't about it morne & noone | And learned Bards of it their ditties made | The nimble ffairyes by the pale faced moone | Water'd the Roote & kiff'd her pretty shade | But welladaye the Gardner careles grewe | The maids & ffairyes both were kept awaye | And in a drought the Caterpillers threwe | Themselves upon the Budd & euery Spraye | God shield the stock | If heaven | send not supplyes | The ffairest Blossom of the Garden | dyes In pencil, on verso, lower left: a80891 Titled, lower right: Memory of Clavering | s. 39715- On mat, lower right: Recd 10-3-34 Dated on plate, lower right: 1934

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1983-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Comstock, Francis Adams. A Gothic Vision: F. L. Griggs and His Work. Boston, 1966, pp. 218-223, no. 51III (ill., p. 222).

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Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, Memory of Clavering, 1934, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg, F1983.151.