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 Soul of the Rose
A woman leaning into a rose, eyes closed, breathing it in.
- Work
- John William Waterhouse, The Soul of the Rose (My Sweet Rose)
- Artist / creator
- John William Waterhouse (British, 1849–1917)
- Origin & date
- Britain, 1908
- Held by
- Private collection
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 12x16 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
A woman in a wine-red gown presses her face to a rose on a sun-warmed garden wall, eyes shut, lost entirely in its scent — the whole painting is that single act of breathing in. The title comes from Tennyson’s poem Maud (“she is coming, my own, my sweet… the soul of the rose went into my blood”), and Waterhouse distils the poem’s swoon into one hushed, private moment among the climbing flowers. There is no myth and no drama here, only pure absorbed pleasure. It is one of the most quietly romantic images the Pre-Raphaelite tradition ever produced — a painting about the simple, total joy of a beautiful smell.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Private collection’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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