Merlin Finds the Baby Arthur
by
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945), "Merlin Finds the Baby Arthur" from: Idylls of the King. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911.



This picture illustrates the lines from Tennyson's "Guinevere" idyll:

They found a naked child upon the sands
Of dark Dundagil by the Cornish sea;
And that was Arthur; and they foster'd him
Till he by miracle was approven King