"So like a shatter'd Column lay the King" (The Passing of Arthur)

Portrait of Mary Hillier, William Warder, Mrs. Hardinge, an unidentified woman, and two hooded figures in costume and posing as the characters from the accompanying Alfred, Lord Tennyson poems titled "The Passing of Arthur". Two of the women, Vivien and Morgan le Fay, place a dying King Arthur in a wooden boat to take him to Avalon. His head rests in the lap of one of the women, who sits at the bow as the other positions his body in the boat. A third woman stands at the stern and looks down into the water. Two hooded figures stand on the shore behind them.