The Mermaid - Edmund Dulac

The Merman King had been for many years a widower, but his old mother kept house for him; she was a clever woman, but so proud of her noble birth that she wore twelve oysters on her tail, while the other grandees were only allowed six. Exquisite underwater scene from The Mermaid (The Little Mermaid) by Hans Christian Andersen. Illustration by Edmund Dulac

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