Items matching mermaids (results page 1)

Frontispiece: Clerk ColvillSome British Ballads (1919)

The young man clutches his hat with one hand and with the other holds aloft a sword as he kneels at the edge of a pond. From that same pond a mermaid rises up, arms raised, breasts bare. This beautifu [...]

Keywords: people, trees, water, swords, mermaids, colour

Places shown: Slane; County Meath; Ireland

Added: 2006-05-13

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Chapter Heading Woodcut featuring Neptune and MermaidsA Compleat Collection of English Proverbs (1737)

A decorative woodcut from above the Introduction; it is not related to the text. The engraving features Neptune, the God of the Ocean; he is naked, crowned, complete with trident, and rides a chariot [...]

Keywords: mythical creatures, mermaids, water, horses, transport, chapterheads, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-10-10

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Clerk Colvill (chapter head)Some British Ballads (1919)

This black-and-white line illustration of a mermaid is above the start of the ballad Clerk Colvill.

Keywords: mermaids, people, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-13

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Her mirror was the smooth water of the tide poolLegends of the Seven Seas (1929)

A mermaid, a young naked woman, sits on a rock and combs her long hair, her fish’s tail dangling in the water. Gulls circle by her head. A black and white drawing in a surprisingly modern art deco sty [...]

Keywords: peoppe, mermaids, women, nudity, birds, water, sitting, black and white, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-03-06

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Winged Mermaid from p. 199 rectoBuch der Natur [Book of Nature] (1481)

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 [...]

Keywords: mythical creatures, mermaids, paintings, colour, drolleries, drawings, sketches

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-02-14

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Sculpture: Muse of PoetryGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

This full-page engraving is in the form of a three-dimensional sculpture: a mermaid sits in an alcove playing a musical instrument and petting a swan; she has a crown of flowers and long flowing hair. [...]

Keywords: sculpture, mythological figures, nudity, art, emblems, mermaids, birds, swans, musical instruments, poetry, music, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-06-25

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Muse of Poetry, UnlabeledGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A version of the Muse of poetry sculpture with theGerman writing removed.

Keywords: sculpture, mythological figures, nudity, art, emblems, mermaids, birds, swans, musical instruments, poetry, music, cartouches, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-06-25

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Initial letter V with a mermaidBohemia Volume 2: Vltava (1884)

She’s a naked woman from head to knee, but then her legs become a twisted knotted tail with fins at the bottom. This mermaid is wearing a wreath or headdress of roses, a garland symbolising romance or [...]

Keywords: initial letters, letterv, mermaids, mermades, mythical creatures, spooky, women, people, nudity, fish, flowers, seduction, mythological creatures, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2024-12-05

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Initial Letter T With Angels and DevilA Compleat Collection of English Proverbs (1737)

The two winged creatures in this decorative initial letter T are very definitely female and probably intended to be naked. They seem to have fish’s tails rather than legs and feet, so maybe they are A [...]

Keywords: initials, lettert, angels, devils, mythical creatures, mermaids, vignetted initials, passé partout initials, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-12-26

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