A print showing The Merchant of Venice as performed in the Rubens Room, Windsor Castle, before Queen Victoria, 28th December 1848, with Charles and Ellen Kean as Shylock and Portia. Act IV, scene i, showing Shylock with scales being confronted by Portia, with other figures behind.This is after the drawing (RCIN 923591) mounted in the same volume.

This is one of the illustrations to John Absolon's A Complete History of the Theatrical Entertainments, Dramas, Masques and Triumphs at the English Court... including a series of plays performed before Her Majesty at Windsor Castle, Christmas 1848-9. Seven of the drawings are bound in to this copy of the volume with proof impressions of the plates. The volume was bound by Riviere & Son.

John Absolon was a landscape and genre painter who worked for the Grieve family, painting scenery and dioramas. Thomas Grieve acted as Kean's designer for the Windsor performances