THIS PAINTING IS THE LAST IN THE SERIES AND BRINGS THE "ART FROM THE VICTORIAN ERA" BLOG TO AN END.
It will be replaced tomorrow by
SING ME A SONG OF BONNIE SCOTLAND
EVELYN de MORGAN 1855-1919
No.20
The Sea Maidens
This painting may refer to the story of The Little Mermaid by Hans Anderson. The little mermaid falls in love with a shipwrecked prince and desperately wants to be human. Helped by a witch, she changes her tail into legs, but as a forfeit she loses the power of speech and is unable to tell the prince of her love. He falls in love with someone else and the little mermaid wants to go back to the sea. Her sisters sell their hair to the witch, to buy a knife with which the little mermaid can kill the prince and so become a mermaid again. She cannot do this and drowns herself.
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