Explore: Mermaids In Art

Prettejohn p.57 Cavallaro p.139 https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/a-mermaid Cavallaro, Dani. J.W. Waterhouse and the Magic of Color. McFarland

In folklore, a mermaid is an aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of

Mermaid (Danish: (En) Havfrue), painted in 1873, is the last of at least four oil on canvas paintings of mermaids painted by the Polish-Danish painter

The Mermaids (also known as Drowned Maidens, Russian: Русалки ) is an 1871 oil on canvas by the Russian artist Ivan Kramskoi. It depicts nineteen rusalki

undisclosed period, tells of two mermaids who came ashore and were made prisoners by the villagers. Some time later the mermaids "either made their escape or

shown again in the 1897 retrospective exhibition of Leighton's art. It was first entitled The Fisherman and Syren, and afterwards The Mermaid. Rhys 1900

procession of half-human, half-aquatic women who pass by; the rejected mermaids at the front look disappointed. Chernavushka appears behind everybody else

pamphlets which described general information about mermaids and stories about his specimen in particular. In his Secrets of the Sideshows, Joe Nickell documents

of mermaids in media, please see Mermaids in popular culture. Cinema Splash (1984): starring Daryl Hannah and Tom Hanks, Hannah played a mermaid who

Machine, Associated Press, May 21, 2007 "Public Art Mermaid Statues & Sculptures around the World". Mermaids of Earth. 2012. Archived from the original on