Herne's Oak from 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' V, v
Date:
ca. 1857
Materials & Techniques:
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
Subject Terms:
theater (discipline) | tree | costume | mask | fire | punishment | men | literary theme | antlers | hunter | light | forest | children | torch | oak | night | chains | mistresses | women | night | obese | park (grounds) | fairies | The Merry Wives of Windsor, play by William Shakespeare
Associated Places:
England | United Kingdom | Windsor Great Park
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Shakespeare on Canvas (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-01-02 - 2012-06-30)Shakespeare in Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2003-02-15 - 2003-06-15)Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
Publications:
Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 14, 124, no. 38, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, 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)