Arthurian Romance in Art

Lit 275 Studies in English LiteratureDr. David Swain

Victorian Revival

The Pre-Raphaelites

Arthur in Avalon

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1857)

Sir Lancelot's Vision of the Sangreal

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1857), a study for a fresco in the Oxford Union, now destroyed)

The Lady of Shalott

William Holman Hunt (1857)

After Tennyson's poem,“The Lady of Shalott”

Morte d'Arthur James Archer (1861)

Arthur Receives Excalibur

Daniel Maclise (1857)

The Beguiling of Merlin

Edward Burne-Jones (1875-77)

Sir Galahad Arthur Hughes (1870)

King Arthur

Alfred Kappes (1880)

The Twentieth-Century

Book Illustration and Graphic Art

Arthur Draws Excalibur

left) Howard Pyle (1903); right) H.J. Ford (1902)

Arthur Draws Excalibur

Arthur Dixon (1921)

Arthur Receives Excalibur

illustrated manuscript by Alberto Sangorski (1912)

Camelot

Maria Louisa Kirk (1912)

Merlin with the infant Arthur

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale(1911)

Lancelot Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1911)

Guinevere

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale(1911)

Guinevere in the Nunnery

Eleannor Fortescue-Brickdale (1911)

Lancelot Beholds Guinevere

Arthur A. Dixon (1921)

Prince Valiant

Comic strip created in 1937 by Hal Foster

In the first year of the strip, Val meets Sir Gawain, Lancelot, and King Arthur

Prince Valiant In this scene Prince Valiant is present at the historical moment in which the real “King Arthur” turns to help the Saxons he has just defeated (#1683)

Camelot

Ian Brown (2002)

Young Arthur

Ian Brown (2002)

Lancelot considers his affair

Ian Brown (2002)