Color print, size approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches, source unknown.

Richard Altick says in Paintings from Books that "Shakespeare's nondramatic works were seldom represented in art. . . . Ony one picture bore an explicit reference to the much disputed sonnets, William Frost's Disarming of Cupid . . . . The Dark Lady and other problematic aspects of the sonnets were beyond the ken and concern of the artists" (331). I found another illustration of a sonnet by Shakespeare; Sir John Gilbert entitles This picture "As a Decrepit Father Takes Delight," a line from Sonnet 37.

As a decrepit father takes delight
To see his active child do deeds of youth,
So I, made lame by Fortune's dearest spite,
Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,
Or any of these all, or all, or more,
Intitled in thy parts do crowned sit,
I make my love ingrafted to this store.
So then I am not lame, poor, nor despised
Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give
That I in thy abundance am sufficed
And by a part of all thy glory live.
Look what is best, that best I wish in thee.
This wish I have, then ten times happy me!

The illustration is tipped into a page that looks as if it has been removed a book. It says on the page "Drawn by Sir John Gilbert. "As a decrepit father takes delight. Sonnet XXXVII. William MacKenzie, London, Edinburgh & Glasgow." Gilbert did hundreds of illustrations for various editions of Shakespeare.