Merlin

Dan Beard, “Merlin” (1889)

Aubrey Beardsley, “Merlin” (1893)

Aubrey Beardsley, “Merlin Taketh the Child Arthur into His Keeping”

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, illustration to Tennyson’s Idylls of the King

Arthur Dixon, “King Arthur Asks Counsel of Merlin” (1921)

Gustave Doré, “Merlin Paints the Young Knight's Shield” (188?)

Margaret Campbell Hoopes, “Then Merlin said: "I'll charm the boy”” (Tom Thumb, 1923)

Merlin’s Cave, Richmond Castle (1735)

Modern Arthuriana Rick Wakeman, King Arthur (1975) Rick Wakeman, Merlin Merlin (1998) Merlin (2008)

The Old French Prose Vulgate Cycle (13 th century) 1 Estoire del Saint Graal 2 Prose Merlin, with sequel 3 Lancelot 4 Queste del Saint Graal 5 Mort Artu (death of Arthur)

Merlin and [Vivien, Viviane, Niviane, Niniane, Nimue, Nineve]

Jemima Blackburn, “How Merlin Was Outwitted by the Lady Viviana” (from Tom Thumb)

Aubrey Beardsley, “Merlin and Nimue” (1893)

Arthur Rackham, “Merlin and Nimue: How by her subtle working she made Merlin to go under the stone” (1917)

George Wooliscroft & Louis Rhead, “Merlin and Vivien” (1898)

George Wooliscroft & Louis Rhead, “Vivien”

George Wooliscroft & Louis Rhead, “Vivien Smiles Saucily”

George Wooliscroft & Louis Rhead, “Vivien Accuses Those At Camelot”

George Wooliscroft & Louis Rhead, “Vivien’s Spell”

George Wooliscroft & Louis Rhead, “Vivien’s Triumph”

John Moyr Smith, “Vivien” Tile, 1875

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, “Enid, Guinevere, and Vivien” (1893)

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, “Merlin and Vivien”

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, “Vivien”

Julia Margaret Cameron, “Merlin and Vivien” (1875)

Arthur Dixon, “Vivien Enclosed Him, Living, Within a Magic Circle” 1921)

Howard Pyle, “The Enchantress Vivien” (1925)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Merlin and Vivien” from Idylls of the King ( ) And after that, she set herself to gain Him, the most famous man of all those times, Merlin, who knew the range of all their arts, Had built the King his havens, ships, and halls, Was also Bard, and knew the starry heavens; The people called him Wizard; whom at first She played about with slight and sprightly talk, And vivid smiles, and faintly-venomed points Of slander, glancing here and grazing there; And yielding to his kindlier moods, the Seer Would watch her at her petulance, and play, Even when they seemed unloveable, and laugh As those that watch a kitten; thus he grew Tolerant of what he half disdained, and she, Perceiving that she was but half disdained, Began to break her sports with graver fits, Turn red or pale, would often when they met Sigh fully, or all-silent gaze upon him With such a fixt devotion, that the old man, Though doubtful, felt the flattery, and at times Would flatter his own wish in age for love, And half believe her true: for thus at times He wavered; but that other clung to him, Fixt in her will, and so the seasons went.