Lancelot
by
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945), "Lancelot" from: Idylls of the King. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911.



This picture illustrates the lines from Tennyson's "Vivien" idyll, later the "Merlin and Vivien" idyll:

Sir Lancelot went ambassador, at first,
To fetch her, and she took him for the King.