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Painting of a red-haired mermaid holding a fish above turquoise waves, with a silvery tail and leaping fish under a pale blue sky, in a gilded frame.

A Sea-Nymph, Edward Burne-Jones, 1881

A red-haired mermaid with a pale, bare torso rises above turquoise waves, holding a fish aloft in one hand and a shell-like object in the other. Her scaled, silvery-green tail curls through the water beneath, while more fish leap and swim around her under a pale blue sky. The painting is set in an ornate gilded frame.

Artist
Edward Burne-Jones
Date
1881
Medium
Source
Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
Size
3840 × 3833 px
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Public domain · Edward Burne-Jones died 1898 and the work dates by 1881; public domain in the US and life+70 countries.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier B · as stated by the source: Public domain

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Edward Burne-Jones, via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

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