Mermaid--Mermaids exhibited successively in the Years 1758, 1775, & 1794 / J. Pass, sc. – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Mermaid--Mermaids exhibited successively in the Years 1758, 1775, & 1794 / J. Pass, sc.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Mermaid--Mermaids exhibited successively in the Years 1758, 1775, & 1794 / J. Pass, sc.
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Three exhibitions, held in 1758, 1775, and 1794, are named in this engraving's title, so it records a recurring attraction rather than a single event. Mermaid displays of that era were usually composite curiosities, with the upper body of a small primate or similar creature joined to a fish tail, and paying audiences treated them as wonders. J. Pass engraved the plate in 1817 for the *Encyclopaedia Londinensis*, a multivolume British reference work, so the image was meant to explain a popular curiosity to readers decades after the displays had ended.
| Created / published | 1817 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Engravings British Hand-colored 1810-1820. |
| Notes | Engraved for the Encyclopaedia Londiensis, 1817. |
| Subjects | Mermaids--1750-1800. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,727 × 4,657 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221723 |
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