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John Collier: Queen Guinevre's Maying, 1900
Creator/Artist |
Name |
Collier, John Maler |
Date of birth/death |
1850 |
1934 |
Location:Cartwright Hall Art Gallery , Bradford, England. From: [1] A scene from Malory, as recast by Tennyson in his 'Idylls of the King' (1859). In the relevant poem, 'Guinevere', the cheerful pointlessness of a May Day procession quickly leads to something less innocent....
For thus it chanced one morn when all the court,
Green-suited, but with plumes that mocked the may,
Had been, their wont, a-maying and returned,
That Modred still in green, all ear and eye,
Climbed to the high top of the garden-wall
To spy some secret scandal if he might,
etc. Source: www.goodart.org/artofetc.htm
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