One of a series of "Masterpieces of Victorian Art Restored", published in Punch, May 12, 1954 Fashions in Burne-Jones change. Twenty years ago, when the revival started, The Beguiling of Merlin (cat. no. 64), with its overt sexual overtones, seemed to capture the youthful imagination, appearing on Athena posters and elsewhere. Earlier in the century its presence in the Tate had ensured that King Cophetua was the best known image. The Victoria and Albert Museum s display of popular twentieth-century metal- work includes a biscuit tin of 1932 on which the picture is reproduced. 23 R. H. Wilenski's jibe in 1933 about "Wardour Street bric-a-brac" has already been noted, and in May 1954 the picture was satirized by Norman Mansbridge in Punch, retitled Her First Audition (fig. 91).