The Lady of Shalott (1888)

The Lady of Shalott (1888)

Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917)

The Lady of Shalott
1888
Oil on canvas, 153 x 200 cm
Tate Britain, London

The picture illustrates the following lines from part IV of Tennyson’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’:

And down the river’s dim expanse
Like some bold seer in a trance,
Seeing all his own mischance –
With glassy countenance
Did she look to Camelot.
And at the closing of the day
She loosed the chain, and down she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Shalott.

See also:

Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)