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Geraint and Enid - illustration to Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King'

Maker

(artist)
1806-1870

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1860

Medium

pen and brown ink on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 27.5 cm
Width: 35.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4319

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

A painter and illustrator, Daniel Maclise was one of the most popular and prolific Victorian artists, admired particularly for his historical and romantic subjects. This finely-wrought pen and ink drawing depicts a scene from Alfred Tennyson’s ‘Idylls of the King’, a cycle of poems set in the time of King Arthur. It shows Enid kissing her husband Geraint as they prepare to ride away from the scene of the Welsh knight’s victory over the wicked Earl Doorm, whose lifeless hand can be seen through the doorway.

Provenance

unidentified collector (mark at lower right not on Lugt); Hand. (as written on Witt's index card, but does not appear on his key and thus identity remains unknown); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (verso, lower left), in the late 1940s (according to a letter in the file from 1968 by former Curator Philip Troutman, though no evidence for this date given); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Life, Legend, Landscape - Victorian Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 17/02/2011-15/05/2011

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953

Literature

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 26

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 33

Life, Legend, Landscape: Victorian Drawings & Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, 2011
no. 31
ill. on p. 119 ...More

Life, Legend, Landscape - Victorian Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, 2011
cat. no. 31
ill. on p. 119 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner of margin, graphite: “#2”. Verso: lower centre, graphite, Robert Witt’s hand: “ ---- then Geraint upon the horse / Mounted, and reached a hand, and on his foot / She set her own and climbed; he turned his face / And kissed her climbing, and she cast her arms / About him, and at once they rode away. / Idylls of the Kings / partI Enid / p 525. Routledge complete Ed RW”. Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: “Daniel Maclise / 1811-1870 / Geraint upon the horse. Tennyson. / Inscribed on reverse.”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner within drawing, blindstamped, an empty horizontal oval: unidentified collector's mark (not on Lugt). Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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