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Waterhouse paints Tennyson's doomed heroine drifting down the river toward Camelot, loosing the chain of her boat as her curse takes hold. Melancholy and richly detailed, it distils the Pre-Raphaelite love of medieval legend. The guttering candles signal her ebbing life.
The Lady of Shalott
- Date1888
- MovementPre-Raphaelite
- WhereTate Britain, London
- RegionBritain