Guinevere in the Nunnery
by
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

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



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

The sombre close of that voluptuous day
Which wrought the ruin of my lord the King.