Femina Marina
Femina Marina (She Means Well)
For this one, I employed a 19th century cigarette ad.
(Weird that The Little Mermaid is in theaters now and my daughter is close to the age I was when the first one came out. Thirty….four years ago? Yikes. How. )
Historical sources utilized:
The Mermaid by American Tobac. Co. 1894
Wampum Snake (Anguis) from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands by Mark Catesby. 1754
Discomedusae–Scheibenquallen from Kunstformen der Natur by Ernst Haeckel. 1904
Trochilidae–Kolibris from Kunstformen der Natur by Ernst Haeckel.l. 1904
Two veil goldfish by Ohara Koson. 1926
