An 1867 edition of Tennyson's Idylls of the King, illustrated by Gustave Dore and published by Edward Moxon & Company, titled "Vivien and Guinevere" after the two women whose stories the idyll pairs: Vivien, the enchantress who traps Merlin, and Guinevere, Arthur's queen. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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This source names Guinevere directly: "Moxon & Company, titled "Vivien and Guinevere" after the two women whose stories the idyll pairs: Vivien, the enchantress who traps Merlin, and Guinevere, Arthur's queen."
Source Vivien and Guinevere, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Gustave Dore edition)
This source names Merlin directly: "Vivien, the enchantress who traps Merlin, and Guinevere, Arthur's queen."
Source Vivien and Guinevere, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Gustave Dore edition)
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Source Vivien and Guinevere, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Gustave Dore edition)
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Later English retellings of the Arthurian legend, following Thomas Malory and popularized further by Tennyson, most often call this enchantress Vivien, the name under which the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own title for this illustrated edition identifies her.
Source Vivien and Guinevere, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Gustave Dore edition)
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1. Vivien and Guinevere, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Gustave Dore edition)
Metropolitan Museum of Art- Metropolitan Museum of Art 1973.625.7
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An 1867 edition of Tennyson's Idylls of the King, illustrated by Gustave Dore and published by Edward Moxon & Company, titled "Vivien and Guinevere" after the two women whose stories the idyll pairs: Vivien, the enchantress who traps Merlin, and Guinevere, Arthur's queen.
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