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I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott

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and the geometric tiles of the floor lead the viewer into the room, where reds, yellows and blues echo the more vivid colours outside. A single poppy can be seen reflected in the mirror. The
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This painting depicts an earlier point in the tale of the Lady of Shalott than those depicted by Waterhouse in his previous two works of
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A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids
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completed in 1915. It is the third painting by Waterhouse that depicts a scene from the
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columns holding up the arches of the window reflected in the mirror. The frame of the
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appears in the mirror, enticing the Lady out of her tower to her death.
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The painting shows the Lady of Shalott resting from her weaving.
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of the loom resemble boats, foreshadowing the Lady's death.
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in 1916. It was sold from the estate of the accountant
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John William Waterhouse
Oil on canvas
Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto
John William Waterhouse
Tennyson
The Lady of Shalott
1888
1894
weaving
tapestry
Camelot
Lancelot
Romanesque
loom
shuttles
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
John George Griffiths
CVO
Hampton's
guineas
Arthur de Casseres
Philip Berney Jackson
Art Gallery of Ontario
The Lady of Shalott, 1888 Tate Britain, London
The Lady of Shalott
The Lady of Shalott Looking at Lancelot, 1894 Leeds City Art Gallery
The Lady of Shalott Looking at Lancelot
List of paintings by John William Waterhouse

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