The Lady of Shalott

 

William Holman Hunt (1889)

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No time hath she to sport and play:

 A charmed web she weaves alway.

 A curse is on her, if she stay

 Her weaving, either night or day,

 To look down to Camelot.

 She knows not what the curse may be;

 Therefore she weaveth steadily,

 Therefore no other care hath she,

 The Lady of Shalott.

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Sidney Harold Meteyard (1913)

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But in her web she still delights

 To weave the mirror's magic sights,

 For often thro' the silent nights

 A funeral, with plumes and lights

 And music, came from Camelot:

 Or when the moon was overhead

 Came two young lovers lately wed;

 `I am half sick of shadows,' said

 The Lady of Shalott.

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John William Waterhouse (1894)

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She left the web, she left the loom

 She made three paces thro' the room

 She saw the water-flower bloom,

 She saw the helmet and the plume,

 She look'd down to Camelot.

 Out flew the web and floated wide;

 The mirror crack'd from side to side;

 'The curse is come upon me,' cried

 The Lady of Shalott.

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John Atkinson Grimshaw (ca. 1875)

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A longdrawn carol, mournful, holy,

 She chanted loudly, chanted lowly,

 Till her eyes were darken'd wholly,

 And her smooth face sharpen'd slowly,

 Turn'd to tower'd Camelot:

 For ere she reach'd upon the tide

 The first house by the water-side,

 Singing in her song she died,

 The Lady of Shalott.

Alfred Tennyson (1832)

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William Maw Egley (1858)

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Walter Crane (1862)

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Gustave Doré (1867)

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Sophie Anderson (1870)

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Arthur Hughes (late 19th C.)

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Toby Edward Rosenthal (detail, 1874)

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Homer Watson (1877)

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Engraving after Dante Gabriel Rossetti (late 19th C.)

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Anonymous (late 19th C.)

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John William Waterhouse (1888)

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William Holman Hunt (late 19th C.)

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George William Joy (ca. 1890)

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Britain Riviere (late 19th C.)

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Byam Shaw (1898)

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George Edward Robertson (1900)

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Henry Meynell Rheam (around 1900)

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Mary Evelina Kindon (around 1900)

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Sidney Paget (around 1900)

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Illustration for The Book of Romance (1900)

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William Ladd Taylor (ca. 1911)

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Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1913)

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John William Waterhouse (1915)

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Harold Speed (early 20th C.)

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Arthur Rackham (1917)

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Edward Reginald Frampton (1920)

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John Stephens (1999)

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Jinx Mim (2000s)

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Kerry Darlington (2000s)

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Donato Giancola (2004)

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Yang Zhang after Waterhouse (2009)

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Carole Humphreys (2010)

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Dashinvaine (2010)

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Benjamin Victor (?)

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Yoshitaka Amano (?)

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The Lady of Shalott

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