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.
The Lady of Shalott
Tennyson’s doomed enchantress, adrift toward Camelot.
- Work
- John William Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott
- Artist / creator
- John William Waterhouse (British, 1849–1917)
- Origin & date
- Britain, 1888
- Held by
- Tate Britain, London
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 18x24 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
Cursed to see the world only in a mirror, the Lady of Shalott dared to look directly at Sir Lancelot — and, knowing it doomed her, loosed her boat and drifted down the river toward Camelot, singing, to die. Waterhouse catches the last moment: the tapestry she wove from the world in her mirror trailing in the water, three candles (two already guttered), her lips parted on the final note. It is Pre-Raphaelite painting at its most bewitching — Tennyson’s poem made flesh — and a natural companion to any lover of myth and legend.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Tate Britain, London’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.
