Florence Harrison
Florence Harrison.
Australian-born British artist Florence Harrison (1877-1955) was an illustrator whose style shows the influence of both the Pre-Raphaelites and Art Nouveau. Initially an illustrator of her own children’s poetry, she went on to illustrate two books of poems, by Tennyson and William Morris, which were published by Blackie’s, her chief publisher throughout her career. Like those of Jessie King, Harrison’s line drawings have strong decorative elements, while her watercolors are often dreamy and fantastical in their imagery.
“And by him Palomydes helmet off / He fought” is an original pen-and-ink drawing of Harrison’s that illustrated Morris’s “King Arthur’s Tomb” in Early Poems of William Morris (1914).
"And by him Palomydes helmet off / He fought", a drawing by Florence Harrison.