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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.61290#0175
THE OXFORD FRESCOES
M3
Proctor at the University, who had already won
some distinction by his painting of the beautiful
roof in Merton College Chapel. The roof of the
Debating Hall was now successfully painted, in a
grotesque design, by William Morris, who also
undertook one of the window-bays, and proposed
as his subject “Sir Palomides’ Jealousy of Sir
Tristram and Iseult.” Alexander Monro, the
sculptor of the party, executed the stone shield
over the porch. Burne-J ones selected for his fresco
“Nimue brings Sir Peleus to Ettarde after their
Quarrel ; ” Arthur Hughes proposed “ Arthur
Conveyed by the Weeping Queens to Avalon after
his Death Vai Prinsep, “ Merlin Lured into the
Pit by the Lady of the Lake,” and J. Hungerford
Pollen, “ King Arthur Receiving the Sword Ex-
calibur from the Lady of the Lake.” Rossetti’s
subjects were “ Sir Galahad Receiving the San-
grael ” and “Sir Launcelot before the Shrine of
the Sangrael.” The knight, in this last design,
has just attained the sacred goal of his pilgrimage,
and in his weariness has sunk down in sleep upon
the threshold ; but his sleep, even in that hour, is
haunted by the face of Guinevere. So powerful
was this composition in romantic force and imagi-
native fervour, especially in the haunting, passionate
face of the Queen, as to make the speedy oblitera-
tion of this and its companion frescoes the more
deplorable, in spite of the obvious crudities and
M3
Proctor at the University, who had already won
some distinction by his painting of the beautiful
roof in Merton College Chapel. The roof of the
Debating Hall was now successfully painted, in a
grotesque design, by William Morris, who also
undertook one of the window-bays, and proposed
as his subject “Sir Palomides’ Jealousy of Sir
Tristram and Iseult.” Alexander Monro, the
sculptor of the party, executed the stone shield
over the porch. Burne-J ones selected for his fresco
“Nimue brings Sir Peleus to Ettarde after their
Quarrel ; ” Arthur Hughes proposed “ Arthur
Conveyed by the Weeping Queens to Avalon after
his Death Vai Prinsep, “ Merlin Lured into the
Pit by the Lady of the Lake,” and J. Hungerford
Pollen, “ King Arthur Receiving the Sword Ex-
calibur from the Lady of the Lake.” Rossetti’s
subjects were “ Sir Galahad Receiving the San-
grael ” and “Sir Launcelot before the Shrine of
the Sangrael.” The knight, in this last design,
has just attained the sacred goal of his pilgrimage,
and in his weariness has sunk down in sleep upon
the threshold ; but his sleep, even in that hour, is
haunted by the face of Guinevere. So powerful
was this composition in romantic force and imagi-
native fervour, especially in the haunting, passionate
face of the Queen, as to make the speedy oblitera-
tion of this and its companion frescoes the more
deplorable, in spite of the obvious crudities and