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- Title:
Herne's Oak from 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' V, v
- Date:
- ca. 1857
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 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
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