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William Holman Hunt · c.1888-1905

The Lady of Shalott

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The Lady of Shalott stands tangled in the threads of her loom, her hair whipping upward, as she looks out at Sir Launcelot reflected in the cracked mirror behind her; irises lie scattered at her feet. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford.

Up to 11 × 14.2 in · portrait

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

8″10.3″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of The Lady of Shalott

The Lady of Shalott is an oil painting made c. 1888-1905 by Holman Hunt, taken from Tennyson's 1832 poem. It shows the instant after the Lady looks out at Sir Launcelot reflected in her mirror: the weaving breaks and traps her in its threads, and the mirror cracks from side to side. The painting is held by the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut; a smaller version is at Manchester Art Gallery.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

William Holman Hunt

William Holman Hunt was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbolism. These features were influenced by the writings of John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle, according to whom the world itself should be read as a system of visual signs. For Hunt, it was the duty of the artist to reveal the correspondence between sign and fact. Of all the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Hunt remained most true to their ideals throughout his career. He was always keen to maximise the popular appeal and public visibility of his works.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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