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
References
Malory, Sir Thomas. The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur. London: Elkin Matthews and John lane, 1894.
Last modified 28 April 2009