A Good Catch, 1894 - Eugene de Blaas (1843 - 1931) ( lemmynsfw.com )
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I find it interesting that artists depicting mermaids don't really seem to know how to manage the transition between fish tail and human. JWW has opted for a human belly (with a hint that there may be lady-parts down there, discreetly hidden by her hair), but for some reason has extended the fish-scales to the rear over her...
Promotional art for United Artists Corporation, 1920s.
More of the artist's work can be found here.
"Isabella, or The Pot of Basil was a poem written in 1820 by the English poet John Keats, who borrowed his narrative from the Italian Renaissance poet Giovanni Boccaccio. Isabella was a Florentine merchant’s beautiful daughter whose ambitious brothers disapproved of her romance with the handsome but humbly born Lorenzo, their...