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Includes Shaped Whimsies Pieces

TITLE:     Lady of Shalott
ARTIST:  John William Waterhouse
SIZE:        28.7" x 20"
PIECES:  1000
PRICE:    $200
MADE BY: Wentworth
DESCRIPTION:  This painting was completed in 1888 and is a representation of a scene from Lord Aflred Tennyson's poem of the same name, in which the poet describes the plight of a young woman (who yearned with an unrequited love for the knight Sir Lancelot) isolated under an undisclosed curse in a tower near King Arthur's Camelot.  According to legend, the Lady of Shalott was forbidden to look directly at reality or the outside world; instead she was doomed to view the world through a mirror, and weave what she saw into tapestry.