Elaine by Charles Edwin Fripp. Oil on canvas, 12 x 25 1/2 inches.
Inscribed on a label on the reverse: "And when she was dead the corps and the head and all was led the next way into the Thamse, and there a man and the corps and all were put in a barge on the Thamse" — La Mort d'Arthur.
Related material
- Elaine as a subject for painting and illustration
- Tennyson's Idylls of the King (of which “Launcelot and Elaine” is the seventh section)
References
Highly Important Victorian Paintings and Drawings. Catalogue for sale of 18 April 1978. London: Sotheby's Belgravia, 1978. Catalogue number 37.
Last modified 3 September 2015