
Glynis Johns, “Miranda” 1948
Actress Glynis Johns dressed as a mermaid, cleans her nails in the bath, in a scene from the film “Miranda”. Mid-20th century
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Giovanni Andrea Maglioli
Date: 1580-1610 (fl)
Giovanni Andrea Maglioli (Print made by); A naked mermaid seen from behind holding on to a sea monster riding the wavesEngraving
Dorothy Pulis Lathrop (1891-1980) was a well-known, popular, prolifically published, and well-respected American author and illustrator of fictional books written, and imaginatively illustrated, for children. (>)
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this one hasn’t swung through in a while
howard pyle: the mermaid (via freeparking)
Hakon Mielche - Brasilien - motsättningarnas land (back)
A Swedish edition of Danish writer/illustrator/journalist Hakon Mielche’s Fra Santos til Bahia (“From Santos to Bahia”), 1948.
The Swedish title translated to English would probably be “Brazil - the Country of Contradictions.”

To hear the sea-maid’s music.
Arthur Rackham, from A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, London, New York, 1908.
(Source: archive.org)
Dying Mermaid ~ Adrian Borda via