![]() ![]() The Victorians: British Painting, 1837–1901. BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History. "The Moxon Tennyson as Textual Event: 1857, Wood Engraving, and Visual Culture". The Quest for the Grail: Arthurian Legend in British Art, 1840–1920. ![]() Archived from the original on 18 November 2016. Waterhouse: I am Half-Sick of Shadows, said the Lady of Shalott". ^ "I am Half-Sick of Shadows, said the Lady of Shalott"."The Source of Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott". The Lady of Shalott (1905), a painting by William Holman Hunt PART IV In the stormy east-wind straining, The pale yellow woods were waning, The broad stream in his banks complaining, 120 Heavily the low sky raining Over tower'd Camelot Down she came and found a boat Beneath a willow left afloat, And round about the prow she wrote 125 The Lady of Shalott.Between 18 Waterhouse painted three episodes from the poem, as well as La Belle Dame sans Merci (1893) from the poem by John Keats. Throughout his career, Waterhouse was preoccupied with the poetry of both Tennyson and John Keats. Tennyson's verse was popular with many of the Pre-Raphaelite poets and painters and was illustrated by such artists as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Maw Egley, and William Holman Hunt. Tennyson also reworked the story in Elaine, part of his Arthurian epic Idylls of the King, published in 1859, though in this version the Lady is rowed by a retainer in her final voyage. The Lady of Shalott was donated to the public by Sir Henry Tate in 1894. Naturalistic details include two swallows and the water plants that would be found in a river in England at this time. Waterhouse's close attention to detail and colour, the accentuation of the beauty of nature, realist quality, and his interpretation of her vulnerable, wistful face are further demonstration of his artistic skill. The Lady's dress is stark white against the much darker hues of the background. Aside from the metaphoric details, this painting is valued for Waterhouse's realistic painting abilities. Candles were a representation of life – two of the candles are already blown out, signifying that her death is soon to come. ![]() The Lady has a lantern at the front of her boat and a crucifix is positioned near the bow. She is pictured sitting on the tapestry she has woven. This is the moment that is pictured in Waterhouse's painting, as the Lady is leaving to face her destiny. After defying the curse by looking out the window at Camelot, the Lady has made her way to a small boat. She sat below the mirror and wove a tapestry of scenes she could see by the reflection. In the poem, the Lady had been confined to her quarters, under a curse that forbade her to go outside or even look directly out of a window her only view of the world was through a mirror. It pictures the titular character of Tennyson's poem, also titled The Lady of Shalott (1842). The painting has the precisely painted detail and bright colours associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. The Lady of Shalott Looking at Lancelot, 1894 ![]()
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