Elaine Being Carried to the Barge
by
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945), "Elaine Being Carried to the Barge" from: Idylls of the King. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911.



This picture illustrates the lines from Tennyson's "Elaine" idyll, later the "Lancelot and Elaine" idyll:

So those two brethren from the chariot took
And on the black decks laid her in her bed.