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Winged Mermaid from p. 199 recto more
mythical creatures, mermaids, paintings, colour, drolleries, drawings, sketches
A fifteenth-century drawing of a mermaid with wings (and breast) taken from fol. 199r of a (somewhat dubious) textbook on natural history.
The mermaid has the trunk and head of a woman, the tail of a fish, and wings, or possibly large fins.