Mythic Uther's Deeply Wounded Son (King Arthur and the Weeping Queens) (Illustration for "The Palace of Art" in Tennyson's Poems, New York, 1903)
After Dante Gabriel Rossetti British
Engraver Dalziel Brothers British
Publisher New Amsterdam Book Company American
Not on view
Rossetti’s 1857 illustrations of Tennyson—here reissued in 1903—incorporate startling effects derived from medieval and early Renaissance art. Space collapses, forms are cut off, and narrative details are inserted without concern for conventional perspective. In Mythic Uther’s Deeply Wounded Son, the artist focuses on the circle of long-haired weeping queens rather than the dying king lying across their laps. Rossetti criticized the engravers and insisted on many changes, delaying the publication.
This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.
