Galahad and Three Angels
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F. M. Baldwin. Galahad and Three Angels. Drawing.
Baldwin's drawing is based on Tennyson's early poem 'Sir Galahad.' A quotation from the poem appears in large capital letters above (A GENTLE SOVND AN AWFVL LIGHT) and below (THREE ANGELS BEAR THE HOLY GRAIL) the image. 'Sir Galahad' is the poem which contains the lines
My good blade carves the casques of men,
My tough lance thrusteth sure,
My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.
These lines echoed through late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century culture and made Tennyson's Galahad a model of moral chivalry.