Live Auction 20038An Aesthetic Odyssey: The Peter Rose and Albert Gallichan Collection
JOHN BYAM LISTON SHAW, A.R.W.S. (1872-1919)
Lot 152

JOHN BYAM LISTON SHAW, A.R.W.S. (1872-1919)

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

Closed30 September 2021

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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.)

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

Specialist note


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'