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John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) - The Lady of Shalott (1888), Tate Britain, Apr 2015

A non-nude for a change...

See also (and hopefully Fave) Millais' Ophelia.

 

"Out flew the web and floated wide;

The mirror crack'd from side to side;

'The curse is come upon me!' cried

The Lady of Shalott."

 

(That's Tennyson, of course. Here's the rest:

www.bartleby.com/101/700.html )

 

The poem also provided the title of an Agatha Christie story (The Mirror Crack'd), which has one of her nastiest plot twists.

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Uploaded on April 23, 2015