Mermaid Pictures, Ancient–18th Century

This is disappointing; there are thousands of modern mermaids online, but—with the exception of voluptuous Victorians—little earlier art has made it up.

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1791 manuscript 389 x 632 crdp-strasbourg .fr	Apprently from Saint Pierre de Bessuéjouls, France (16c.), but the image seeems to have disappeared from the page that should have it! 600 x 528 architecture.reli3 .free.fr	Illustration from L. Renard's Poissons écerevesses & Crabes … 700 x 461 udstillinger.dnlb .dk

17c. 250 x 187 schloss-zeilitzheim .de	"Ilustartion of Hortis Sanitati, 1491" 391 x 500 monsters.monstrous .com	Pompeii fresco with Sirens (1c. AD) 529 x 553 homepage.mac .com

source unknown 218 x 305 endicott-studio .com	source unknown 242 x 193 endicott-studio .com	"alchemical siren" 500 x 398 monsters.monstrous .com

472 x 662 sunflower.singnet .com.sg	from an edition of the Physiologus (c. 1070). Notice the winged-dolphin-tailed sirens 250 x 172 fh-augsburg .de	"Monstra Niliaca Parei" from Aldrovandi Ulisse's Monstrorum historia (1642) 1024 x 768 ubs.sbg.ac .at

"Mermaids St. Michel d'Aiguilhe" 407 x 313 ralphfiennes -jenniferlash .com	Late Medieval fresco from St. Christopher, Slapton, England 504 x 672 paintedchurch .org	700 x 360 vrcoll.fa.pitt .edu

283 x 345 mgr2.free.fr	from Athanasius Kircher's Oedipus Aegypticus (Rome, 1652) 451 x 325 marvunapp.com	500 x 333 monsters.monstrous .com