Mermaids
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![[Leaflet advertising an appearance of a real mermaid and merman (caught off Terra del Fuego). Location not disclosed but printed in Lambeth (Phoenix Printing Office)].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28549533_EPH_499B_6_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Works from the collections
19 works
- Videos
The little mermaid.
Date: 2008
- Pictures
- Online
Three mermaids, one of them showing posterior and front view. Coloured engraving, 1817.
Date: 1817Reference: 3331i
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A grotesque mermaid, amidst luxurious cushions and drapes, and framed by two shells. Coloured lithograph by E. Purcell, 1822.
Edward Purcell- Pictures
Two sleeping water creatures, similar to mermaids. Etching by J.H. Mortimer, 177-.
Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779.Date: 25 January 1780Reference: 3097i
- Ephemera
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[Leaflet advertising an appearance of a real mermaid and merman (caught off Terra del Fuego). Location not disclosed but printed in Lambeth (Phoenix Printing Office)].
Date: 1887