![]() ![]() He also captures her yearning look as she sees a couple in the bottom right of the mirror. ![]() In this painting, Waterhouse shows the large round mirror, through which the Lady views the world. She was doomed to view the world through a mirror and weave what she saw into a tapestry. The Lady of Shalott was forbidden to look directly at the outside world. The lady wears a red dress, in a small dark room with Romanesque column windows. The scene shows the plight of a young woman from Arthurian legend, who yearned for the outside world but was isolated under a curse in a tower near King Arthur’s Camelot. “I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott” by John William Waterhouse is the third painting by Waterhouse that depicts a scene from the Tennyson 1832 poem, “The Lady of Shalott.” “I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott” by John William Waterhouse ![]()
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