ABSTRACT
In the broader context of the nineteenth century's fascination w ith m edievalism , the A rthurian legend had w idespread appeal for both writers and artists. In "The Arthurian Century: A Chronology of Significant Arthurian Publications in the Nineteenth Century," an appendix to his King Arthur's Laureate, Phillip Eggers has traced most of the literary works of the period treating the matter of Arthur, but there has been no comparable exam ination of the visual interpretations of this m aterial, which are equally numerous. (Citations in this article and the accom panying Appendix refer to the Selected Bibliography beginning on page 303.) The death of King A rthur is a particularly prominent icon in the paintings and illustrations of the Victorians, recurring in at least a dozen major pictures and in several illustrated books, the m ost fam ous of which is the celebrated Moxon Tennyson of 1857.
