The picture illustrates the following lines from part IV of Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott':
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And down the river's dim expanse
Like some bold seer in a trance,
Seeing all his own mischance -
With glassy countenance
Did she look to Camelot.
And at the closing of the day
She loosed the chain, and down she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Sha...
Size:
1530 x 2000 mm
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Credit:
Courtesy of Tate Britain (Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported))
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