- Artist
- John William Waterhouse
- Year
- 1888
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
The Lady of Shalott is John William Waterhouse’s celebrated rendering of Tennyson’s Arthurian poem, showing the cursed Lady as she sets out in a boat along the river to Camelot, her tapestry unraveling behind her. The autumnal colours, the intricate detail, and the haunting stillness of her voyage made it one of the most popular images of the Victorian era and a defining work of the later Pre-Raphaelite movement.