The Arthurian legends have been an inspiration to artists for centuries. These pages try to show some of the variety of interpretations, in images rather than in words.

Abbey's Boston Library Murals The year after Connecticut Yankee came out, Edwin Austin Abbey, another American expatriate painter, was commissioned to create a fifteen-panel mural for the Book Delivery Room at the new Boston Public Library (shown at left). The subject he chose was The Quest for the Holy Grail. The two black-and-white engravings above -- The Round Table of King Arthur and The ...

Arthur Receives Excalibur by Daniel Maclise Maclise, Daniel (1806-1870) (J. Thompson engraver). Arthur Receives Excalibur (Illustration to Morte D'Arthur ) from: Tennyson, Alfred. Poems by Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L. London: Edward Moxon, 1857. ...

Elaine's Funeral by George Wooliscroft & Louis Rhead Rhead, George Wooliscroft & Louis. Elaine's Funeral from Tennyson, Alfred. Idylls of the King: Vivien, Elaine, Enid, Guinevere. New York: R. H. Russell, 1898. This picture illustrates the lines from Tennyson's Lancelot and Elaine idyll: So toward that shrine which then in all the realm Was richest, Arthur leading, slowly went . . . ...

How Arthur Gat His Sword Excalibur by Alfred Kappes Kappes, Alfred (1850-1894). How Arthur Gat His Sword Excalibur, from Lanier, Sidney. The Boy's King Arthur. New York:Charles Scribner's Sons, 1880. ...

Morte D'Arthur by Daniel Maclise Maclise, Daniel (1806-1870) (J. Thompson, engraver). Morte D'Arthur from: Tennyson, Alfred. Poems by Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L. London: Edward Moxon, 1857. ...

Arthur's Vision of the Wheel of Fortune by Albert Herter Albert Herter (1871-1950) Arthur's Vision of the Wheel of Fortune from :Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic. New York: Macmillan & Co., 1899. ...

IT IS INDEED THE CUP by EVELYN PAUL Evelyn Paul, It Is Indeed the Cup from: Claire de Lune and Other Troubadour Romances. London: G. G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1913. ...