The Flowers of Shakspeare. by GIRAUD, Jane Elizabeth. William SHAKESPEARE.

Hand-coloured lithograph print. Print size 310 × 230 mm, mount size 410 × 315 mm.

An original hand-coloured lithograph from Jane Elizabeth Giraud’s Flowers of Shakspeare (1845).

Oak leaves, acorns and rosehips illustrating ‘Timon of Athens’, Act IV, scene 3:

‘Why should you want? Behold, the earth hath roots;
Within this mile break forth a hundred springs;
The oaks bear mast, the briers scarlet hips;
The bounteous housewife, nature, on each bush
Lays her full mess before you’.