The print is the point
Anyone can sell the image — it’s public domain. What you’re buying here is the object: how faithfully, and how durably, the masterwork lands on your wall.
- Museum-grade cotton-rag
- Heavyweight archival cotton-rag stock — the same acid-free paper conservators trust — not thin poster stock.
- Archival pigment, 100+ years
- Pigment inks, not dye: rated to hold their colour past a century without fading or shifting.
- Colour-managed to the source
- Each file is profiled to the holding institution’s own scan, so the print reads as the painting does.
- Gallery canvas on solid wood
- Canvas is gallery-wrapped over kiln-dried solid-wood stretcher bars — taut, square, ready to hang.
A Mermaid
A siren combing her hair at the edge of the sea.
- Work
- John William Waterhouse, A Mermaid
- Artist / creator
- John William Waterhouse (British, 1849–1917)
- Origin & date
- Britain, 1900
- Held by
- Royal Academy of Arts, London
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 12x16 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
A mermaid sits alone on the rocks at the mouth of a cave, combing out her long copper hair, a scatter of pearls in the shell beside her, the grey-green sea breaking quietly behind. Waterhouse gives her none of the menace of the old sailor-drowning legend — only a moment of self-possessed solitude, half-human and entirely at home. He submitted it as his diploma work to the Royal Academy, the picture by which he chose to be judged, and its cool northern light and melancholy calm are Pre-Raphaelite enchantment at its most refined. The sea-creature of a hundred myths, painted as a quiet, private afternoon.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Royal Academy of Arts, London’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
- Every factual claim about this work — title, artist, date, and holding institution — is verified against the art-historical record and the source institution.
- Ships in 5–8 business days; satisfaction guaranteed.
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