The Lady of Shalott, 1888
John William Waterhouse
Oil on canvas

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.