The Lady of Shalott Looking at Lancelot
…second of three major paintings by Waterhouse that depicts scenes from the 1832 Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem, "The Lady of Shalott", between the first – The Lady of Shalott – in 1888 and the third – I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott – in 1915. In Tennyson's poem, the Lady is confined to a tower on an…