A hand-coloured etching depicting three figures standing alongside Herne's Oak in Windsor Park, with Windsor Castle in the background. This may be an early impression of an print published in the second volume of Samuel Ireland's Picturesque Views on the River Thames (1799; see RCIN 700758 for an impression of the print), before the aquatint was applied. No letters; on paper watermarked "WHATMAN". Inscribed in pencil under image: 'Herne's Oak - Windsor Park'. Cut down.

The two Merry Wives of Windsor, Mistress Page and Mistress Ford, are standing with Falstaff at Herne's Oak, a tree supposedly haunted by the ghost of Herne the Hunter. In Shakespeare's play the wives leave Falstaff at the tree to be pinched and frightened by the town's children disguised as fairies, in revenge for his clumsy insults to their virtue.