Merlin — Aubrey Beardsley's illustration

for “Le Morte d'Arthur” (original) (raw)

Merlin

Aubrey Beardsley, 1872-1898

1893-94

Photo-reproduction of pen-and-ink drawing

From Le Morte d'Arthur

The influence of Burne-Jones's The Beguiling of Merlin appears quite clearly in this work's claustraphobic, flattened space as well as the choice of subject and it also does in Beardsley's own Merlin and Nimuë

Related Material

• The Beguiling of Merlin by Burne-Jones
• Beardsley’s Merlin and Nimuë

Bibliography

Malory, Sir Thomas. The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur. London: Elkin Matthews and John lane, 1894.

Last modified 28 April 2009