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

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

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

Red and white roses illustrating Henry VI, Part I, Act II, scene 4, Warwick’s speech:

‘This brawl today,
Grown to this faction in the Temple garden,
Shall send, between the red rose and the white,
A thousand souls to death and deadly night’.