Narrative Collection

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by William McLaren
King Arthur welcomes the Green Knight into the Banqueting Hall and invites him to dismount and eat with the company. Everyone is amazed to see the unexpected visitor

Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, sees his beloved Beatrice
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, best known for his long narrative poem, the Divine Comedy, sees his beloved Beatrice Portinari on the Lung Arno, Florence

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by William McLaren
The Green Knight rides over the bridge into Camelot Castle on New Years Day. He will set King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table a special challenge

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by William McLaren
Sir Gawain takes up the challenge. As instructed by the Green Knight, he swings the battleaxe and cuts off the Green Knights head. The head falls off and rolls towards the banqueting guests

Odysseus returns to his wife Penelope
Odysseus returns to his wife, Penelope, and his dog, Argos

Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, best known for his long narrative poem, the Divine Comedy

Odysseus returns to his wife, Penelope

Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, best known for his long narrative poem, the Divine Comedy

Little girl at a window -- No Walk Today
A little Victorian girl stands at a window, watching the rain -- a black and white reproduction of a painting by Sophie Anderson entitled No Walk Today

Illustration, La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland), Battle of Roncevaux (778). Charlemagne hears Rolands horn, calling for help, but they will arrive too late to save the hero. Date: 778

Music cover, Glowing Embers by Evan Marsden, Narrative-Intermezzo, piano solo Date: 1924

Ulysses and His Companions escaping the Sirens, passing between Scylla and Charybdis. Date: circa 1790

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- Knight and Squire
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- the Knight and the Squire. Date: 14th century

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- Canons Yeomans Tale
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Canons Yeomans Tale, a two-part story about alchemists. Showing the Canon announcing his secret to the Priest, the Canon stirring the crucible

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Nuns Priests Tale, a mock heroic story about a cockerel named Chanticleer (Chauntecleer), his wife Pertelote, and a wily fox. Date: 1845

The British Valhalla -- The Wars and Conquests in France. Depicting the Countess de Montfort (Joanna of Flanders, Duchess of Brittany) waiting for help to arrive, and saluting Sir Walter Manny

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Franklins Tale, a romantic story set in Brittany, about a couple, Dorigen and Arveragus, who decide that their marriage will be an equal one

The British Valhalla -- Magna Carta. Showing the Barons taking the Oath on the altar at Bury St Edmunds, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Stephen Langton, showing the Charter at St Paul s. Date: 1214

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Squires Tale, an unfinished (interrupted) story in the form of an epic romance about Genghis Khan (named here Cambuscan or Cambyuscan)

The British Valhalla -- Our Crusading Kings. Showing King Richard I of England (the Lionheart) viewing Jerusalem, and Richard with King Philip II of France, during the Third Crusade (1189 - 1192)

The British Valhalla -- Archbishop Thomas Becket
The British Valhalla -- Bishop of Exeter at Northampton, supplicating Archbishop Thomas Becket to submit to King Henry II, and the reconciliation at Montmirail in France

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Friars Tale, showing the corrupt Summoner, the Devil and the Widow. Date: 1845

The British Valhalla -- William the Conqueror (his funeral and burial), a suggestion for the scheme to decorate the newly built Houses of Parliament with frescoes. Date: 1087

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Wife of Baths Tale (left). Also including the Knight solving the riddle (centre) and the Knight on his travels (right). Date: 14th century

The British Valhalla -- King Canute (Cnut) the Great, a suggestion for the scheme to decorate the newly built Houses of Parliament with frescoes

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Man of Laws Tale, about the life of Constance, or Custance, Christian daughter of the emperor of Rome

The British Valhalla -- King Alfred reading to his mother, Queen Osburh or Osburga, a suggestion for the scheme to decorate the newly built Houses of Parliament with frescoes. 9th century

The British Valhalla -- King Alfred, coming to the Danish camp as a minstrel, and (right) hailed as the saviour of his people (meeting with the Welsh monk, Asser, who wrote a biography of the King)

The British Valhalla -- conversion to Christianity
The British Valhalla -- the conversion to Christianity of the Anglo-Saxon people (Paulinus before Edwin), a suggestion for the scheme to decorate the newly built Houses of Parliament with frescoes

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Knights Tale. Palamon in the Temple of Mars, Arcite in the Temple of Venus. Date: 1845

The British Valhalla -- two knights reading history book
The British Valhalla -- two knights reading a history book of Britain, a suggestion for the scheme to decorate the newly built Houses of Parliament with frescoes

Hudibras, mock-heroic poem by Samuel Butler -- Hudibras and the astrologer Sidrophel. Date: 1845

Great white shark and suckerfish
Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias (vulnerable), and suckerfish, Remora remora. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his Narrative of a

Cacao, cocoa or chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao
Sprig of the cacao, cocoa or chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao, with bean, fruit and seed. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his Narrative of a

Green banded urania moth, rattlesnake and snail-eater snake
Green banded urania moth, Urania leilus, rattlesnake, Crotalus durissus, and snail-eater snake, perhaps Dipsas catesbyi. Copperplate engraving by Barlow after an original illustration by Captain John

South American tapir and manati
South American tapir, Tapirus terrestris, young with spotted hide, and manati or West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus. Copperplate engraving by Barlow after an original illustration by Captain

Four-eyed opossum and false vampire bat
Four-eyed opossum, Philander opossum, and false vampire bat, Vampyrum spectrum. (Marine oppossum of Terra Firma and Vampire or Spectre of Guiana.) Copperplate engraving by A

Freshwater barracuda and wolf fish
Red-tailed freshwater barracuda, dago fissee or dagoefisi, Acestrorhynchus falcatus, and wolf fish or anjumara, Hoplias aimara

Red acouchi and crab-eating raccoon
Red acouchi or wood rat, Myoprocta acouchy, and crab-eating raccoon, crabbodago or grisson, Procyun cancrivorus. Copperplate engraving by Barlow after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel

Great tinamou and orange-winged parrot
Great tinamou or anamoe, Tinamus major major, and common or orange-winged parrot, Amazona amazonica, with hanging nests. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel

Sprig of the anchiote tree, Bixa orellana. The flavoring and dye annatto is derived from its seeds. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his

Red-faced spider monkey and red-handed tamarin
Red-faced spider monkey, Ateles paniscus, kwata or quato (vulnerable), and red-handed tamarin, Saguinus midas, sagoewenki or saccawinkee

Tucuma and pomelo fruit
Tucuma or avoira palm nuts, Astrocaryum aculeatum, and pomelo or shaddock apple, Citrus maxima. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his Narrative

Plantain tree and banana tree, Musa paradisiaca. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against

White-lipped peccary and collared peccary
White-lipped peccary, Tayassu pecari, and collared peccary, Pecari tajacu. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his Narrative of a Five Years

Wattled jacana and scarlet ibis
Wattled jacana, Jacana jacana, and red curlew or scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his Narrative of a Five Years

Guiana white-tailed deer and brown brocket
Guiana white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus cariacou, and brown or grey brocket, Mazama nemorivaga. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his

Menelaus blue morpho, Morpho menelaus, ventral and dorsal, on a pomegranate blossom. Azure blue butterfly, copied from Maria Sibylla Merian

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