The print is the point
Anyone can sell the image — it’s public domain. What you’re buying here is the object: how faithfully, and how durably, the masterwork lands on your wall.
- Museum-grade cotton-rag
- Heavyweight archival cotton-rag stock — the same acid-free paper conservators trust — not thin poster stock.
- Archival pigment, 100+ years
- Pigment inks, not dye: rated to hold their colour past a century without fading or shifting.
- Colour-managed to the source
- Each file is profiled to the holding institution’s own scan, so the print reads as the painting does.
- Gallery canvas on solid wood
- Canvas is gallery-wrapped over kiln-dried solid-wood stretcher bars — taut, square, ready to hang.
Hylas and the Nymphs
Seven faces in the water, and a boy who never comes back.
- Work
- John William Waterhouse, Hylas and the Nymphs
- Artist / creator
- John William Waterhouse (British, 1849–1917)
- Origin & date
- Britain, 1896
- Held by
- Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 8x10 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
Hylas, companion of Heracles, goes to a pool to fill a jar and the naiads rise out of it to take him. Waterhouse crowds seven of them into the dark green water among water lilies, each face a variation on the same calm gaze, one already reaching for his arm. There is no violence in it and no escape either — the trap is entirely made of beauty, which is the point of the story. The pool is painted from real English weeds and reflections, so the myth happens somewhere you could actually stand. The most seductive drowning in Victorian art.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
- Every factual claim about this work — title, artist, date, and holding institution — is verified against the art-historical record and the source institution.
- Ships in 5–8 business days; satisfaction guaranteed.
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