LADY OF SHALLOT


John William Waterhouse (British, 1849-1917)
The Lady of Shalott
Painting Date: 1888
This painting is based on The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

It illustrates the lines:

And down the river's dim expanse
Like some bold seer in a trance,
Seeing all his own mischance -
With a 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.

J.W.Waterhouse

There she weaves by night and day
A magic web with colours gay...

J.W.Waterhouse

I am half-sick of shadows, said the Lady of Shalott ...

- Elizabeth Siddal -

-William Holman Hunt -

J.W.Waterhouse

This painting is based on The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

It illustrates the lines:

She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces thro' the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She look'd down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott.

OPHELIA

(J.W.WATERHOUSE)

And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,
That suck'd the honey of his music vows,
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,
Like sweet bells jangled out of tune and harsh,
That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth
Blasted with ecstasy. O, woe is me
T'have seen what I have seen, see what I see.
Act III, Scene i

(J.W.WATERHOUSE)

(The First Madness of Ophelia-Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

(Antoine-Auguste-Ernest Hebert)

(Arthur Hughes)

Hughes described this painting as Ophelia 'approaching the water and looking back at us, singing her last song.'

Inscribed on the back is the following verse:

'Ophelia (sings)
And will he not come again?
And will he not come again?
No, no he is dead
Go to thy death-bed
He never will come again.
His beard was as white as snow,
All flaxen was his poll:
He is gone, he is gone,
And we cast away moan;
Gramercy on his soul!
And of all Christian souls, I pray God -
God be wi' you.
Exit'.

(Jules-Joseph Lefebvre)

Arthur Hughes
The writing on the frame of this painting reads:

'There is a willow grows aslant the brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come.
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples.
There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang an envious sliver broke.
When down the weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook.'

(Eugène Delacroix)

(Paul Steck)

(John Everett Millais)

(Odilon Redon)

( Margaret Macdonald)

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