"Sir Arthur Took It up by the Handles"
by
Dan Beard
Dan Beard (1850-1941). "'Sir Arthur Took It up by the Handles'" from: Illustrations to Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889.



Beard was apparently parodying the image by Alfred Kappes "How Arthur Gat His Sword Excalibur" from the popular Boy's King Arthur (1880).