John William Waterhouse
Isabella and the Pot of Basil
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Framed size: 11 × 17 in
Solid wood frame
Exhibition canvas
Removable acrylic glass
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This is a framed canvas reproduction of a 1907 painting by John William Waterhouse.
History & Materials
The story
In Keats’s poem, Isabella’s brothers murder her lover, Lorenzo, and bury him in secret. She hides his severed head in the basil pot and waters the plant with her tears.
The original
Oil on canvas.
104.8 × 74 cm.
The reproduction
Printed with archival pigment inks on Epson Exhibition Canvas Matte.
Solid-wood frame with raised flowers and leaves in warm brown tones.
Print size: approx. 8 × 14 in.
Framed size: 11 × 17 in.
Keats’s Isabella, retold
Four painters,
one Isabella
Holman Hunt began his Isabella in Florence in 1866. When his wife, Fanny, died there that December, he gave Isabella her face. Alexander and Waterhouse answered him.
Background: John Everett Millais, Isabella, 1849 (detail)
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