The Lady of Shallot
John William Waterhouse (1888)
John William Waterhouse’s The Lady of Shallot (1888) fixes on the instant the cursed heroine releases her chain and sets her black, coffinlike boat adrift. The extinguished candles, the small crucifix, and the tapestry trailing into the water stage a <strong>funerary voyage</strong> toward Camelot and a choice of <strong>experience over enclosure</strong> <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
