The Monarch of the Glen (painting) The Monarch of the Glen (painting) The Monarch of the Glen is an oil-on-canvas painting of a red deer stag completed in 1851 by the English painter Sir Edwin Landseer. It was commissioned as part of a series of three panels to hang in the Palace of Westminster in London. As one of the most popular paintings throughout the 19th century, it sold widely in reproductions in steel engraving, and was finally bought by companies to use in advertising. The painting had become something of a cliché by the mid-20th century, as "the ultimate biscuit tin image of Scotland: a
The Magical Monarch of Mo the valley; instead, the Purple Dragon is stretched all the way across the valley, so that it is no thicker than a fiddle-string. Prince Fiddlecumdoo cuts the Purple Dragon into fiddle-strings, and so the Valley of Mo is freed from its worst enemy. Some of the characters in the Oz books are or appear to be derived from characters in The Magical Monarch of Mo, such as: Part of "The Scarecrow of Oz" takes place in Mo, although none of the characters from "The Magical Monarch of Mo" appear in that book. The principal character we meet in Mo in