The Lady of Shalott

Date created: 1888

This painting is based on the poem 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."

See also

The Lady of Shalott (1894)

I am Half-Sick of Shadows, said the Lady of Shalott (1916)