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- Title:
Falstaff at Herne's Oak, from "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Act V, Scene v
- Former Title(s):
Falstaff at Herne's Oak, from 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' V, v [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
- Date:
- 1832
- Medium:
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions:
- 17 1/2 x 14 5/8 inches (44.5 x 37.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in brown paint, lower left: "JStephanoff | 1832"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.5.16
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1975.5.16FR
- Subject Terms:
- actors | antlers | castle | chain | costume | courtship | flag | ghost -- fiction | landscape | leisure | literary theme | man | mistresses | mistresses | moon | night | oak | obese | performance | portrait | punishment | The Merry Wives of Windsor, play by William Shakespeare | theater (discipline) | torches | wives | women
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Sir John Falstaff
Mistress Ford (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Mistress Page (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor) - Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:226
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