Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Mermaid with the Golden Hair
A mermaid sits on a pale bank with long golden hair flowing over her shoulders and tail. Distant rocks and fantastically shaped plants enclose the quiet water. The caption’s wish for a fountain of gold comes from Tennyson’s The Mermaid in The Book of Fairy Poetry.
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Warwick Goble. "The Mermaid with the Golden Hair" [editorial title]. In The Book of Fairy Poetry, Edited by Dora Owen; illustrated by Warwick Goble. Inspected Longmans1920 anthology edited by Dora Owen, with Warwick Goble illustrations, contents, list of coloured plates and concluding poems. All contributions belong to the historical published anthology., 1920, Longmans, Green and Co.. Source scan leaf 171. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/goble-mermaid-golden-hair
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Complete historical source page; editorial descriptive title. Original colours, marks, margins and captions retained.
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Warwick Goble. The Mermaid with the Golden Hair. The Book of Fairy Poetry. Scan leaf 171. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/goble-mermaid-golden-hair