Editing Mermaid (section)

===Illustrations and paintings===
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|File:A most strange and true report of a monsterous fish. 1604 rotated.jpg|'A most strange and true report of a monstrous fish' Illustration from an early printed report of a Mermaid sighting, 1604
|File:MermenLubok.jpg|Mermaid and merman, 1866. Unknown Russian [[folk art]]ist
|File:Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann havfruen.jpg|''Havfrue'', by [[Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann]] (1873)
|File:Play of the Nereides by Arnold Böcklin.jpg|''The Play of the Naiads'', by [[Arnold Böcklin]] (1886)
|File:The Little Mermaid by E.S. Hardy.jpg|Illustration of ''The Little Mermaid'' by E. S. Hardy ({{circa|1890}})
|File:John Collier - The Land Baby.jpg|''The Land Baby'', by [[John Collier (Pre-Raphaelite painter)|John Collier]] (1899)
|File:The Mermaid of Zennor.jpg|''The Mermaid of Zennor'' by [[John Reinhard Weguelin]] (1900)
|File:The-Mermaid.jpg|''The Mermaid'', by [[Howard Pyle]] (1910)
|File:The Little Mermaid's Sisters - Anne Anderson.jpg|''The Little Mermaid's Sisters'' by [[Anne Anderson (illustrator)|Anne Anderson]] ({{Circa|1910}})
|File:The Mermaid and the Satyr.jpg|''The Mermaid and the Satyr'', by [[Ferdinand Leeke]] (1917)
|File:Auburtin - Mermaids.JPG|''Mermaids'', by {{ill|Jean Francis Auburtin|fr}} ({{circa|1920}})
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