Elaine with Lancelot's Shield
by
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945), "Elaine with Lancelot's Shield" 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:

Then to her tower she climb'd, and took the shield,
There kept it, and so lived in fantasy,