Creatures half bird and half woman who lured sailors by the sweetness of her song
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Sirens (Mythology)
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![Ulysses [Odysseus] and the Sirens. Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0035983/full/880%2C/0/default.jpg)
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Ulysses [Odysseus] and the Sirens. Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.
Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609.Reference: 11480iPart of: Imagines farnesiani cubiculi- Pictures
A siren surrounded by scrollwork; left, a shield. Engraving after J. Binck, 15--.
Bink, Jacob, approximately 1500-1569.Reference: 2952301i- Pictures
A nymph seated on a rock and holding a lyre, surrounded by water and fish; representing a Rhinemaiden (Die Lorelei, nymph of the Rhine). Stipple engraving by J.H. Baker after F.R. Roffe after L.M. von Schwanthaler.
Schwanthaler, Ludwig Michael von, 1802-1848.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 3147486i