- ‘The Lady of Shalott’ was created in 1905 by William Holman Hunt in Romanticism style.
- William Holman Hunt, The Lady of Shalott, c. 1888–1905, Wadsworth Atheneum. Wood engraving by John Thompson, published in 1857, based on Hunt's drawing, 95 × 79 mm.
- The Lady of Shalott’s curse and the inevitable cessation of her life can be translated into an equivalent to Orpheus’s inability and eventual breakdown.
- William Holman Hunt, The Lady of Shalott, 1857.
- In the 1880s, William Holman Hunt turned to the poetry of Sir Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a favorite Victorian literary source, in his painting The Lady of Shalott.
- Holman Hunt has depicted the moment when the curse comes upon the Lady of Shalott, rather than portraying her doomed journey, as others have done.
- William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) was a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, among whose followers the Lady of Shalott was a popular subject.
- The imagery in Tennyson’s poem, The Lady of Shalott, was presented in great detail by William Holman Hunt in both his draft and final painting.
- According to Tennyson’s version of the legend, the Lady of Shalott was forbidden to look directly at reality or the outside world; instead she was doomed to view the...
- Two of the more intriguing images in this collection are William Holman Hunt’s 1850 pen drawing illustrating Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem The Lady of Shalott (fig.