- Title:
Herne's Oak from 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' V, v
- Date:
- ca. 1857
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- Support (PTG): 36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.5.24
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1975.5.24FR
- Subject Terms:
- antlers | chains | children | costume | fairies | fire | forest | hunter | light | literary theme | mask | men | mistresses | night | night | oak | obese | park (grounds) | punishment | The Merry Wives of Windsor, play by William Shakespeare | theater (discipline) | torch | tree | women
- Associated Places:
- England | United Kingdom | Windsor Great Park
- Associated People:
- Sir John Falstaff
Mistress Page (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Mistress Ford (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet - Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:233
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
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Malcolm Cormack, A Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 74-75, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)
Jane Martineau, Shakespeare in art, Merrell, London, New York, 2003, pp. 242, 243, no. 87, PR2883 .S52513 2003 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Jane Martineau, Shakespeare nell'arte, Arte, Ferrara, 2003, pp.32, 333, no. 85, PR2883 .S525 2003 OVERSIZE (YCBA)