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).

Illustrating ‘Twelfth Night’, Act I, scene 1:

‘That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of Violets,
Stealing and giving odour!’