1972.1.98.viii

Vivien Encloses Merlin in the Tree

1867 (Date created)
Ink
White Line Engraving
Prints
0 in L x 12.063 in W x 16.5 in H x 0 in D
Notes: Sheet Size
French
Two figures are depicted in a forest scene. The woman figure is Vivien and the male figure is Merlin. Vivien walks away from Merlin, leaving him slumped on a fallen tree in the center of the image. Illustration from [Idylls of the King], by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Plate 18 of 36.
In Collection
[Doré's Illustrations for "Idylls of the King"], New York: Dover Publications Inc, 1995. Print. (in the gallery library)

B. Roosevelt: Gustave Doré (London, 1885)

B. Jerrold: Life of Gustave Doré (London, 1891)

J. Valmy-Baysse: Gustave Doré (Paris, 1930)

H. Leblanc: Catalogue de l’oeuvre complet de Gustave Doré (Paris, 1931)

F. Haskell: ‘Doré’s London’, Archit. Des., xxxviii (1968), pp. 600–04; also in Past and Present in Art and Taste (New Haven, CT, 1987), pp. 129–40

N. Gosling: Gustave Doré (London, 1973)

A. Renonciat: La Vie et l’oeuvre de Gustave Doré (Paris, 1983)
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