by Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The Lady of Shalott”

John Atkinson Grimshaw

And the silent isle

imbowers

the

Lady

of

Shalott.

William Holman Hunt(1889-92)

Edward J. Sullivan

Only reapers, reaping early

In among the bearded barley,

Hear a song that echoes

cheerly

CharlesRobinson (1870-1937)

There

she

weaves

by

night

and

day

William Holman Hunt

And moving thro’ a mirror clear

That hangs before her all the year,

Shadows of the world appear

But in her web she still delightsTo weave the mirror’s magic sights

Elizabeth Siddall(1853)

“‘I’m half sick of shadows,’ said the Lady of Shalott.”

John William Waterhouse(1916)

William Maw Egley

A bow-shot from her bower-eaves,He rode between the barley-sheaves

She left the web, she left the loom,

She made three paces thro’ the room

She saw the helmet and the plume,

She look’d down to Camelot

John William Waterhouse

(1894)

Sidney Harold Meteyard(1913)

“The curse is upon me.”

Down she came and found a boatBeneath a willow left alfloat,And round about the prow she wrote

The Lady of Shalott

John William Waterhouse

(1888)

Elainev “The Lady of Shalott” was based on

the story of Elaine the Fair of Astolat in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte D’arthur (1469-70).

v Elaine dies of grief because she is in love with Sir Lancelot, but Sir Lancelot loves Queen Guinevere, the wife of King Arthur.

v Tennyson developed this story more in Idylls of the King.

Edward Reginald Frampton(1872-1923)

Elaine:Gustave

Doré

She loosed the chain, and down she lay

They heard her singing her last song

Sophie Anderson’s Elaine

(1823-1903)

Henry Peach Robinson1830-1901

Singing in her song she died

John Atkinson

Grimshaw1836-1893

A gleaming shape she floated by

Who is this? and what is here?

Edmund Blair Leighton’s Elaine1853-1922

She has a lovely face

Elaine by Henry Wallis