'Love liketh not the falling fruit, nor the wither'd tree'

Details

JOHN BYAM LISTON SHAW, A.R.W.S. (1872-1919)
'Love liketh not the falling fruit, nor the wither'd tree'
signed 'BYAM-SHAW' (lower left, in a cartouche)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour on paper
13 7/8 x 10 ¼ in. (35.3 x 26 cm.)

Provenance

with Julian Hartnoll, London.
with Abbott & Holder, London, November 1986, probably where purchased for the present collection.

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Lot Essay

The title of this drawing comes from the ballad Walsingham, originally attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh, but of which several versions of the words exist, including a version written by Shakespeare in Hamlet, known as Ophelia's Walsingham. The title here is closest to the wording of Thomas Deloney, in his 1690 The Garland of Good Will:
'I lov'd her all my Youth,
but now am old as you see,
Love liketh not the falling Fruit,
nor the withered Tree'

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