Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building (1894)
Maud Howe Elliott’s survey of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago records what Preuschen showed at the Woman’s Building, placing her among the leading German women painters of the day:
Frau Von Preuschen’s “Elaine” represents the lily maid of Astolat lying in her flower-strewn barge.
The subject — Tennyson’s Elaine, rendered in her signature flower-laden manner — shows her reputation reaching across the Atlantic in her own lifetime, even if it did not survive in the English canon.