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- Edward Burne-Jones' 1861 Merlin and Nimue, the title using the Lady's name popularized by Caxton (en)
- The conception of Merlin as depicted in a circa 1494 manuscript of the Prose Lancelotref|As noted by Miranda Griffin, "while demons are often portrayed with quite extraordinary bodies in illuminations in manuscripts of the Merlin," actual descriptions of Merlin's father tend to talk of an airborne spirit, sometimes taking material shape of a handsome man. One version of the Prose Tristan also makes Merlin essentially a "half-brother" of the monster known as the Questing Beast.|group="note" (en)
- The young Merlin reading his prophecies to King Vortigern in an illustration for Geoffrey of Monmouth's Prophetiae Merlini (en)
- ("How by her subtle working she made Merlin to go under the stone to let wit of the marvels there and she wrought so there for him that he came never out for all the craft he could do.") (en)
- Jean Colombe's circa 1480 illumination of the story of Merlin's unholy birth as told in the Prose Merlin, elaborating on the brief mention by Geoffrey. This was the first popular account of demonic parentage motif in Western Christian literature (en)
- Emil Johann Lauffer's painting of Merlin taking the newborn Arthur to be secretly raised by Ector. Merlin is often linked to stag themes in the legend by either riding on it or transforming himself into one in an apparent association with old Celtic pagan beliefs and their Christianisationref|Merlin's connections with stags within his stories may be a shadow of the belief in avatars of the Celtic "horned god", Cernunnos. As the Celtic Otherworld-associated "enchanted white stag" motif become increasingly Christianised, monastic writers of Arthurian prose romances would even directly equate it with the Christ himself.|group="note" (en)
- An older Merlin as portrayed in Alfonso the Wise's compilation of texts of astronomy (en)
- Arthur Rackham's illustration for Romance of King Arthur abridged from Le Morte d'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard: (en)
- "Merlin", an illustration in the 1894 Dent edition of Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (en)
- The Enchanter Merlin, Howard Pyle's illustration for The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (en)
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- Prophet, magician, bard, advisor, warrior, others ref|As noted by Alan Lupack, "Merlin plays many roles in Arthurian literature, including bard, prophet, magician, advisor, and warrior. Though usually a figure who supports Arthur and his vision of Camelot, Merlin is, because of the stories in which he is said to be the son of a devil, sometimes presented as a villain."|group="note" (en)
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