The Lady of Shalott
Lady of Shalott: William Holman Hunt, 1827-1910
The Lady of Shalott
William Holman Hunt, 1827-1910
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
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.
Lady of Shalott woodcut


This is amazing. I was at the museum the other day and saw "our" copy of The Lady of Shalott, and bought a post card of it. When I got home, I looked it up in my "Complete Works of Tennyson", 1878 and found the following woodcut. It is essentially the same picture!! Look at the similarities: Lancelot riding by, through the *arched* window, Biblical pictures on the wall, the hair, the crank under the loom, the legs of the loom.....The only thing is that I can't find out who drew it! I have an artist for the painting (which is phenomenal at about 5'x 6') but there is nothing in the book to tell me who did the plates. The colors in the painting are absolutely amazing. They are so vivid. The picture does not at all do it justice.

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