Yellow Nineties 2.0 The Savoy, Volume 2 (April 1896) <title n="SAVOYV2icon16_lemmen_mermaid_edited-180x***"/> <editor>Lorraine Janzen Kooistra</editor> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <p> <date>2019</date> </p> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt> <idno>SAVOYV2_icon16</idno> <publisher>Yellow Nineties 2.0</publisher> <pubPlace>Ryerson University</pubPlace> <address> <addrLine>English Department</addrLine> <addrLine>350 Victoria Street,</addrLine> <addrLine>Toronto ON,</addrLine> <addrLine>M5B 2K3</addrLine> <addrLine>Canada</addrLine> </address> <availability> <p>Usable according to the Creative Commons License <ref target="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike</ref>.</p> </availability> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <biblStruct> <monogr> <editor> </editor> <author>J. Lemmen</author> <title>V2 The Mermaid's Cave Leonard Smithers London W April 1896 Lemmen, J. "The Mermaid's Cave." The Savoy, vol. 2, April 1896, p. 171. The Savoy Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra 2018-2019. Yellow Nineties 2.0, General Editor Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019, https://1890s.ca/savoyv2_lemmen_mermaid/

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V2 The Mermaid Cafe SAVOYV2_icon16 SAVOYV2_icon16 The Savoy J. Lemmen April 1896 London 13 x 18 cm figures in seascape pen and ink fantastic ocean underwater ocean sea floor underwater cave coral bed sand mermaid woman seaweed coral tail wavy hair scales squid reef sand "4mai93" V2 The Mermaid Cafe This line block image is in landscape orientation. The image shows a mermaid leaned back on the floor of the sea, within an underwater cave. The foreground in the image shows various underwater plants growing. In the bottom right corner a coral plant splits into three branches. To the left of that coral and just right of centre is another coral, straighter in structure. To the left of that coral is a small version of the three headed coral and slightly to its left is a group of seaweed that has five main weeds curving up. In the bottom left corner there is text that says: “4mai83.” The bottom third of the page, above the coral, shows many short curved lines, indicating waves and movement within the water. In the centre of the pictur e plane is the mermaid. She appears slightly covered by the waves. She is lying on her right side, but her upper body is mostly upright. She has no clothing on, but her lower body is partially masked by the waves in front of her. Her lower body is gradually covered in more scales towards the tail, which appears on the other side of a wave that crashes over and obscures her knee area. The tail end is dark compared to the lightness of the upper tail close to her torso. Her upper body is bare, facing the viewer straight on. She has her arms elevated out to the sides, and her right arm is bent up and in at the elbow. Her right hand falls in her hair where she holds a bunch of her tresses. Her head is tilted slightly down and she looks towards the right side of the page at her tail. Her hair is dark and wavy, flowing out around her shoulders. Around her head there are markings that create a halo effect: straight lines jut out near to her head around a curve. The top and side edges of the page show curved lines that create a cave around the mermaid. The right edge shows a few more corals and seaweed growing out from the side of the cave wall. The top edge of the page has a thick shading of darkness. There is a single-lined border around the image.