John William Waterhouse · 1903

Echo and Narcissus

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Narcissus transfixed by his reflection while Echo gazes longingly across the pool. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

Up to 24 × 14 in · landscape

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Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

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Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

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Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

About this painting

The story of Echo and Narcissus

Echo and Narcissus is a 1903 oil painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist John William Waterhouse, illustrating the myth of Echo and Narcissus told in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The beautiful youth Narcissus lies beside a still pool, transfixed by his own reflection, while the nymph Echo — cursed to do nothing but repeat the words of others — gazes at him from across the water in unrequited longing. Indifferent to her, Narcissus wastes away beside the image he cannot stop loving. The painting hangs in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the artist

John William Waterhouse

John William Waterhouse was an English painter known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter. His paintings are known for their depictions of women from ancient Greek mythology, Arthurian legend, and the works of William Shakespeare. A high proportion depict a single young and beautiful woman in a historical costume and setting, though there are some ventures into Orientalist painting and genre painting, still mostly featuring women.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Frequently asked

Echo and Narcissus— questions & answers

›What is the myth of Echo and Narcissus?

It comes from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Narcissus, a beautiful youth, becomes transfixed by his own reflection in a pool and wastes away beside it, while the nymph Echo — cursed to do nothing but repeat the words of others — gazes at him in unrequited longing.

›Where is Waterhouse's Echo and Narcissus?

John William Waterhouse painted it in 1903, and the original hangs in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

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