The Crystal Ball by John William Waterhouse Matte Poster from Bleak Boutique features a woman in a flowing red dress indoors, gazing into a crystal ball, surrounded by books and a globe with green trees visible through the window behind her.
The Crystal Ball by John William Waterhouse Matte Poster from Bleak Boutique features a woman in a red dress with a crystal ball, Renaissance style, and a partially revealed artists mannequin hand at the bottom mimicking her gesture.
A rolled cardboard tube rests on a partially unrolled Bleak Boutique “The Crystal Ball” by John William Waterhouse matte poster, showing an open book, human skull, crystal ball, and rich red drapery in the background.
The Crystal Ball by John William Waterhouse Matte Poster from teelaunch shows a woman in a long red dress indoors, gazing into a crystal ball, with books and a skull on the table, and arched Renaissance architecture in the background.
The Crystal Ball by John William Waterhouse Matte Poster from teelaunch shows a woman in a red dress indoors, gazing into a crystal ball. Books and a skull rest nearby, with trees seen through an arched window behind her.
The Crystal Ball by John William Waterhouse Matte Poster from teelaunch features a woman in a long red dress indoors, gazing into a crystal ball amid books and a globe, with greenery outside an arched window—evoking Renaissance charm.
The Crystal Ball by John William Waterhouse Matte Poster from Bleak Boutique features a woman in a flowing red dress indoors, gazing into a crystal ball, surrounded by books and a globe with green trees visible through the window behind her.
The Crystal Ball by John William Waterhouse Matte Poster from Bleak Boutique features a woman in a red dress with a crystal ball, Renaissance style, and a partially revealed artists mannequin hand at the bottom mimicking her gesture.
A rolled cardboard tube rests on a partially unrolled Bleak Boutique “The Crystal Ball” by John William Waterhouse matte poster, showing an open book, human skull, crystal ball, and rich red drapery in the background.
The Crystal Ball by John William Waterhouse Matte Poster from teelaunch shows a woman in a long red dress indoors, gazing into a crystal ball, with books and a skull on the table, and arched Renaissance architecture in the background.
The Crystal Ball by John William Waterhouse Matte Poster from teelaunch shows a woman in a red dress indoors, gazing into a crystal ball. Books and a skull rest nearby, with trees seen through an arched window behind her.
The Crystal Ball by John William Waterhouse Matte Poster from teelaunch features a woman in a long red dress indoors, gazing into a crystal ball amid books and a globe, with greenery outside an arched window—evoking Renaissance charm.

"The Crystal Ball" by John William Waterhouse Matte Poster

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The Crystal Ball (1902)
by John William Waterhouse (England, 1849-1917)

The model peers into the ball, leaving the viewer to imagine what she might be seeing and thinking at that point. Her appearance suggests it is pure and gentle, though the skull that sits at the back of the scene offers a more sinister touch of symbolism. A previous owner had taken a dislike to this addition and actually painted over it, though a recent restoration has thankfully returned the painting back to its original composition.

It is the touches of architecture at the back of the room that give the painting an impression of the Renaissance, with a style differing from the Gothic approach that was found in many paintings at this time. The somewhat friendlier construction of vertical and horizontal lines of the Italian papal states of centuries before feels more suited to Waterhouse's artistic style.

Matte Poster
• Printed with Dye/Pigment Reactive Ink on Archival Matte Paper
• Shipped in Heavy Duty Poster Tube
• Heavy weight (210 gsm), thick base, and an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging