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The Lady of Shalott

The Lady of Shalott
(1857)
illustration for The Lady of Shalott in Poems by Alfred Tennyson (or the Moxon Tennyson), published by Edward Moxon, London, 1857

Medium
wood-engraving
Measurements
9.3 × 8.0 cm (image) 9.5 × 8.3 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Headpiece p. 67
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: WHH (monogram)
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: J.Thompson
Accession Number
1280.65-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Percival Serle, 1927
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
History and Legend Human Figures Literary and Text
Subjects (specific)
Arthurian legend (British legends, by 12th century) illustrations (layout features) Lancelot, Sir (character, Arthurian legend) literary characters looms (textile tools) Medievalism mirrors women (female humans)
Movements
Pre-Raphaelite Victorian