![]() ![]() The tapestry she wove during her confinement is draped over the boat. Waterhouse depicts the Lady of Shalott in her final moments, as she lets go of the boat’s chain: her mouth is parted as she sings ‘her last song’. Punished for breaking the curse, she dies before reaching her destination. Defying her curse, she looks out the window and heads in a small boat to Camelot. In Tennyson’s poem, the Lady of Shalott’s suffers from a curse that forbids her from leaving her tower: she sits in the tower and weaves, only allowed to look upon reality through a mirror. According to the legend, she was cursed in a tower near King Arthur’s Camelot. ![]() Tennyson’s poem retells a medieval Arthurian legend about Elaine of Astolat, who died of unrequited love for Sir Lancelot. The Lady of Shalott (1888), one of John William Waterhouse's best-known paintings, illustrates the tragic conclusion of Alfred Tennyson’s 1832 poem The Lady of Shallot. ![]()
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