The Exotic & Chaotic background--   allegorical elements:   Please pay attention to the wall's dark tapestries, "upon which swirl the twisting bodies of angelic and allegorical figures, while the two roundels supporting the great mirror feature scenes of the Fall and the nativity

• Hunt "allegedly intended his  paintings and illustrations to be read as reproving texts on the 'dereliction of duty'" (Pearce 78)   Hunt analysed the text as a moral fable illustrating 'the failure of a human soul towards its accepted responsiblity" (qtd in Marsh 150). 

• Please pay attention to the strong limbs, the heavy hips and breasts, and the witch-like hair. 

• William Holman Hunt, The Lady of Shalott, 1857

• Is she a fallen woman or "snow-maiden"?  Languorouss, Doomed or expecting love?  John William Waterhouse  'I am Half Sick of Shadows' siad the Lady of Shalott, 1915

• William Mau Egley, The Lady of Shalott 1858  a High Ggothic version full of antiquarian detail, a relatively early example of the influence of Pre-Raphaelite medievalism on other artists. ...with the authentic 14th-century costume, which 'clothes somewhat incongruously the patently Victorian figure of Mrs. Egley, who was the model" (Marsh 150-51).

• Elizabeth Siddal, The Lady of Shalott, 1853

The Feet of Ozymandias