The Maids of Elfen-Mere

This pen and ink drawing for Allingham's poem presents a distinctive imagining of the text. The notes for the 1897 New Gallery exhibition (no.17) offer the following description: “Small full-length figure of a youth seated at a table and listening in rapt mood to the chaunt of four mystic supernatural women in shadowy forms before him. A design made for the frontispiece of Allingham's Day and Night Songs” ( Surtees 32). No reproductions are known to exist.

• Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 59.
• Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1,32 (no. 67).