An original hand-coloured lithograph from Jane Elizabeth Giraud's Flowers of Shakspeare (1845). Wild pansy ('Love -in-idleness') illustrating 'Midsummer Nights Dream', Act II, Scene 2, as the basis of the elixir which makes Titania, Oberon's queen, fall in love with Bottom the ass. 'Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:It fell upon a little western flower,Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness'. Hand-coloured lithograph print. Print size 310 � 230 mm, mount size 410 � 315 mm. Seller Inventory # 8168

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Title: The Flowers of Shakspeare.

Publication Date: 1845

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