MFA Images: Literary FiguresExplore this subject through images from across the MFA's collection./internal/media/dispatcher/1807310/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailAdam and Eve Sleeping (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")1808William Blake90.10236628/internal/media/dispatcher/820089/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailAldous HuxleyNegative date: 1926Charles Sheeler2002.885339928/internal/media/dispatcher/1718546/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailAlfred, Lord Tennyson1869Julia Margaret Cameron2002.621398371/internal/media/dispatcher/757152/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailAlfred Tennyson with his sons Hallam and Lionel1865–69Julia Margaret Cameron1977.8114302/internal/media/dispatcher/1807326/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Archangel Raphael with Adam and Eve (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")1808William Blake90.97156665/internal/media/dispatcher/993711/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailBeatrice1819Washington Allston59.77833645/internal/media/dispatcher/756420/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table...and in the End Le Morte d'Arthur1893–94Aubrey Beardsley37.2043a-b250581/internal/media/dispatcher/1807322/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Brothers Driving out Comus (Illustration to Milton's "Comus")about 1815William Blake90.1246098/internal/media/dispatcher/1807320/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Brothers Meet the Attendant Spirit (Illustration to Milton's "Comus")about 1815William Blake90.12236632/internal/media/dispatcher/1807319/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Brothers Plucking Grapes (Illustration to Milton's "Comus")about 1815William Blake90.12136631/internal/media/dispatcher/1807327/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Casting of the Rebel Angels into Hell (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")1808William Blake90.98183701/internal/media/dispatcher/1192938/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailCharles Dickens1842Francis Alexander24.1832105/internal/media/dispatcher/1807323/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailChrist Accepting the Office of Redeemer (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")1808William Blake90.94156661/internal/media/dispatcher/775032/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailCinderella1863Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones32.4094465/internal/media/dispatcher/775017/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailColumbines, One of three Illustrations to Flora's Feast1889Walter Crane92.2573199711/internal/media/dispatcher/1807318/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailComus Disguised as a Shepherd (Illustration to Milton's "Comus")about 1815William Blake90.12036630/internal/media/dispatcher/1807317/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailComus with his Revelers (Illustration to Milton's "Comus")about 1815William Blake90.11936629/internal/media/dispatcher/698690/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailCordelia and the Sleeping Lear (Illustration to Shakespeare)about 1780William Blake90.11436639/internal/media/dispatcher/1807324/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Creation of Eve (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")1808William Blake90.95156664/internal/media/dispatcher/790182/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailDante and Beatrice1851Ary Scheffer21.128331897/internal/media/dispatcher/757368/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailDante and Beatrice, study for The Rose Gardenbefore 1861Dante Gabriel Rossetti58.49258681/internal/media/dispatcher/834895/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailDante and Virgil1859Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot75.230875/internal/media/dispatcher/1421553/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailDante and Virgilmodeled 1861; cast 1862Baron Henri de Triqueti76.559567/internal/media/dispatcher/779972/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailDeath of Ophelia (Act IV. Sc. VII from Hamlet)1843Eugène DelacroixM2349790044/internal/media/dispatcher/1807308/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Expulsion from Eden (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")1808William Blake90.100183700/internal/media/dispatcher/614065/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailFalstaff and Prince Hal (Illustrations to Shakespeare)about 1780William Blake90.118183712/internal/media/dispatcher/775102/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailFlowers from Shakespeare's Garden: A Posy from the Plays1906Walter Crane63.731167139/internal/media/dispatcher/1337174/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHamletabout 1864William Morris Hunt2000.123131488/internal/media/dispatcher/779971/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHamlet and Horatio with the Grave Diggers (Act V. Sc. I from Hamlet)1843Eugène DelacroixB123989952/internal/media/dispatcher/657952/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHamlet Tries to Follow his Father's Ghost (Act I Sc. IV, from Hamlet)1835Eugène DelacroixB122690023/internal/media/dispatcher/1255212/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHenry W. LongfellowJulia Margaret Cameron42.332105091/internal/media/dispatcher/775041/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book1882–83Randolph Caldecott55.1293258043/internal/media/dispatcher/614080/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailJuliet Asleep (Illustration to Shakespeare)about 1780William Blake90.113183715/internal/media/dispatcher/924321/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailKing Lear1788, retouched by West 1806Benjamin West1979.47634327/internal/media/dispatcher/1704024/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe King's Guards Rescue the Miller's Son from Pretended Drowningabout 1873Walter Crane92.2578199716/internal/media/dispatcher/629308/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailLady of Shalott1857Dante Gabriel Rossetti55.1353258103/internal/media/dispatcher/1814700/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Lady Restored to Her Parents (Illustration to Milton's "Comus")about 1815William Blake90.12636634/internal/media/dispatcher/698684/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailLear and Cordelia (Illustration to Shakespeare)about 1780William Blake90.11236638/internal/media/dispatcher/698697/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailLear Grasping a Sword (Illustration to Shakespeare)about 1780William Blake90.11736640/internal/media/dispatcher/614075/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailMacbeth and Lady Macbeth (Illustrations to Shakespeare)about 1780William Blake90.115183714/internal/media/dispatcher/1807321/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Magic Banquet (Illustration to Milton's "Comus")about 1815William Blake90.12336633/internal/media/dispatcher/1807309/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailMichael Foretelling the Crucifixion to Adam (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")1808William Blake90.101157412/internal/media/dispatcher/1105839/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailOphelia1926Arthur Prince Spear1987.24634838/internal/media/dispatcher/783099/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailOphelia1880Anna Massey Lea MerrittK161783433/internal/media/dispatcher/614070/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailOthello and Desdemona (Illustrations to Shakespeare)about 1780William Blake90.116183713/internal/media/dispatcher/1704027/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailPuss Comforts His Master, the Miller's Sonabout 1873Walter Crane92.2581199713/internal/media/dispatcher/1704022/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailPuss Kills the Ogre, and Takes His Lands for His Masterabout 1873Walter Crane92.2576199718/internal/media/dispatcher/1704025/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailPuss Presents the Rabbit to the King, as a Present from the Marquis of Carabasabout 1873Walter Crane92.2579199715/internal/media/dispatcher/1704021/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailPuss Welcomes the King, the Princess and His Masterabout 1873Walter Crane92.2575199719/internal/media/dispatcher/1814699/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSabrina Disenchanting the Lady (Illustration to Milton's "Comus")about 1815William Blake90.125155353/internal/media/dispatcher/1807325/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSatan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")1808William Blake90.96149927/internal/media/dispatcher/693820/resize%25253Aformat%25253Dthumbnail"Seigneur! Voyez ces yeux" (Cleopatra Discovered by Rodogune to Have Poisoned the Nuptial Cup)1791Jean Joseph Taillasson1981.7934420/internal/media/dispatcher/758970/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailTempête (Tempest) Illustration for Virgil's Aeneid, I. 81-123about 1820–24Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson1999.7124957/internal/media/dispatcher/1807328/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Temptation and Fall of Eve (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")1808William Blake90.9936627/internal/media/dispatcher/749715/resize%25253Aformat%25253Dthumbnail"The Lady of Shalott," an illustration for the Moxon Tennyson1857William Holman Hunt55.1350258100/internal/media/dispatcher/624086/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailTitle Page to Shakespeare's "Hamlet." High Wycombe193333.577245939/internal/media/dispatcher/775016/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailTulips, One of three Illustrations to Flora's Feast1889Walter Crane92.2572199712/internal/media/dispatcher/905721/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailUnmounted double paper fan leaf1796George Wilson1976.557126472/internal/media/dispatcher/1037644/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailWalt Whitmanabout 1887Thomas Eakins30.12232369/internal/media/dispatcher/828794/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case, with illustrations from Alice in Wonderland1889John Tenniel2002.568379035