American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 420
the coloring given in a book entitled Fishes, Craw-fish, and Crabs, of Various Colors and Extraordinary Shapes, found near the Molucca Islands.This work, published at Amsterdam in 1717, and dedicated to King George I., contains amongits colored plates one depicting a mermaid (therein called a… … 852 AMERICAN ART European artists the Swiss painter, Arnold Bocklin, has made such subjects most his own,and every American art-lover knows well the charming fancies which our own F. S. Churchhas linked with his drawings of mermaids. Doubtless some of our readers remember a paint-ing of a mermaid…
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