Title from publication.
Original drawing for an illustration for Tennyson's poem "The day-dream," as it appeared in A dream of fair women & other poems, London : Grant Richards, 1900, p. 137.
Signed and dated at lower right in pen and black ink, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 99"; notes specifying colors to be added to the composition inscribed in the right hand margin in pencil; pencil sketch of a man and woman in pencil on verso, with "Tennyson, "The Day Dream" inscribed in ink.
Drawing shows a medieval scene, with the sleeping figure of the butler seated on a cushion at center and leaning against a column, a wine bottle in his lap and wine spilling from a glass in his hand; in the background at right, a page seizes the hand of a lady, while a scholarly old man sits with quill in hand over a book at left.