Sea Battle for a Beautiful Woman
by: George Wooliscroft Rhead (Artist) , Louis Rhead (Artist)
from: Idylls of the King: Vivien, Elaine, Enid, Guinevere (P. 44) - 1898
This picture illustrates the lines from Tennyson's "Vivien" idyll (later "Merlin and Vivien"):
He saw two cities in a thousand boats
All fighting for a woman on the sea.
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