A black-and-white lithograph of a dead tree, its trunk bleached pale. A fence surrounds the base of the trunk, and a fat man leans against it, wearing Elizabethan costume including a ruff and hat. At his feet are a pair of antlers. The scene is surrounded by younger, living trees, and a few deer in the background.
Image: A black-and-white lithograph of a dead tree, its trunk bleached pale. A fence surrounds the base of the trunk, and a fat man leans against it, wearing Elizabethan costume including a ruff and hat. At his feet are a pair of antlers. The scene is surrounded by younger, living trees, and a few deer in the background.

This lithograph shows the second tree to gain some acceptance as 'Herne's Oak'. It had died in the eighteenth century, but stayed standing until it was brought down by a storm in 1863.

Charles Marr shows it protected by its nineteenth-century fence, but contemporary Windsor is still haunted by Shakespeare. Falstaff waits at the fence to keep his assignation. The antlers at his feet have probably been shed by the nearby deer - all that remains of the 'ragg'd horns' of Herne the Hunter.

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