ART WIKI32,963 on view
MapCollectionArtistsMuseumsExhibitionsJournal
Sign in

ART WIKI

Where the masterpiece hangs, and when they let you in.

Collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Getty Villa, Harvard Art Museums, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, J. Paul Getty Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Musée du Louvre, National Gallery of Art, National Museum of Asian Art, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian), Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Rijksmuseum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, SMK — National Gallery of Denmark, State Hermitage Museum, State Russian Museum, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Tretyakov Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia (274 museums), Europeana (19 museums), Wikidata (6 museums), Paris Musées (12 museums), and Joconde, the French Ministry of Culture's museum database (495 museums). Images belong to their rights holders.

Sections

  • Map
  • Search
  • Collection
  • Masterpieces
  • On view now
  • Artists

More

  • Museums & galleries
  • Exhibitions
  • Journal
  • Where the data comes from
  • Privacy & cookies
HomeMapBrowse
  1. Collection/
  2. Victoria and Albert Museum/
  3. Merman and Mermaid
Merman and Mermaid, early eighteenth century

Merman and Mermaid

early eighteenth century · Statuette

May one see it?

Not receiving at present

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, United Kingdom

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

Checked
12 days ago
In this state since
Sep 25, 2026
Source
The museum
On the mapMuseum page

About the sculpture

A young merman and a mermaid with a child under her arm are shown riding a seahorse. The figures are shown frontally and have their arms around each other. The base of the statuette has been modelled to represent water and weeds.

Victoria and Albert Museum

Particulars

Accession number
A.214-1946

Neighbors at Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum page

On the same theme · Mermaid

All works on the theme

What it shows

MermaidMerman

In the catalog

SculptureTerracotta and ceramicsNetherlands

Sources

  • Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Bird of Paradise, Hashimoto Chitaka, 2026

Hashimoto Chitaka

Bird of Paradise, 2026

Torsion 2, Taruma Shoko, 2025

Taruma Shoko

Torsion 2, 2025

Fu, Someya Satoshi, 2025

Someya Satoshi

Fu, 2025

Bow Before the Curtain Falls, 2024

Bow Before the Curtain Falls, 2024

Summer, 2024

Summer, 2024

Red Flow, Ishizuka Genta, 2024

Ishizuka Genta

Red Flow, 2024

3D replica of Michelangelo's Prisoner (4117-1854), Factum Arte, 2024

Factum Arte

3D replica of Michelangelo's Prisoner (4117-1854), 2024

Sculpture, ‘Co-Existence – the Man and the Monkey’, Zhao Lin, 2024

Zhao Lin

Sculpture, ‘Co-Existence – the Man and the Monkey’, 2024

Capricorn, Max Ernst, model 1947, cast 1975

Max Ernst

Capricorn, model 1947, cast 1975

Not on view · National Gallery of Art

The Mermaid, Frederick Stuart Church, 1881

Frederic Stuart Church

The Mermaid, 1881

Not on view · National Gallery of Art

Mermaid, Roy Lichtenstein, 1978

James Rosenquist

Mermaid, 1978

Not on view · National Gallery of Art

A Miscellaneous Collection of Original Designs, made, and for the most part executed, during an extensive Practice of many years in the first line of his Profession, by John Linnell, Upholsterer Carver & Cabinet Maker. Selected from his Portfolio's at his Decease, by C. H. Tatham Architect. AD 1800., John Linnell, c. 1770

John Linnell

A Miscellaneous Collection of Original Designs, made, and for the most part executed, during an extensive Practice of many years in the first line of his Profession, by John Linnell, Upholsterer Carver & Cabinet Maker. Selected from his Portfolio's at his Decease, by C. H. Tatham Architect. AD 1800., c. 1770

Not on view · Victoria and Albert Museum

A Miscellaneous Collection of Original Designs, made, and for the most part executed, during an extensive Practice of many years in the first line of his Profession, by John Linnell, Upholsterer Carver & Cabinet Maker. Selected from his Portfolio's at his Decease, by C. H. Tatham Architect. AD 1800., John Linnell, c. 1762

John Linnell

A Miscellaneous Collection of Original Designs, made, and for the most part executed, during an extensive Practice of many years in the first line of his Profession, by John Linnell, Upholsterer Carver & Cabinet Maker. Selected from his Portfolio's at his Decease, by C. H. Tatham Architect. AD 1800., c. 1762

Not on view · Victoria and Albert Museum

A Miscellaneous Collection of Original Designs, made, and for the most part executed, during an extensive Practice of many years in the first line of his Profession, by John Linnell, Upholsterer Carver & Cabinet Maker. Selected from his Portfolio's at his Decease, by C. H. Tatham Architect. AD 1800., John Linnell, late 18th century

John Linnell

A Miscellaneous Collection of Original Designs, made, and for the most part executed, during an extensive Practice of many years in the first line of his Profession, by John Linnell, Upholsterer Carver & Cabinet Maker. Selected from his Portfolio's at his Decease, by C. H. Tatham Architect. AD 1800., late 18th century

Not on view · Victoria and Albert Museum

Drawing, W. R. Lethaby, late 19th-early 20th century

W. R. Lethaby

Drawing, late 19th-early 20th century

Not on view · Victoria and Albert Museum

Design for a neoclassical pier-glass from; A Miscellaneous Collection of Original Designs, made, and for the most part executed, during an extensive Practice of many years in the first line of his Profession, by John Linnell, Upholsterer Carver & Cabinet Maker. Selected from his Portfolios at his Decease, by C. H. Tatham Architect. AD 1800., John Linnell, late 18th century

John Linnell

Design for a neoclassical pier-glass from; A Miscellaneous Collection of Original Designs, made, and for the most part executed, during an extensive Practice of many years in the first line of his Profession, by John Linnell, Upholsterer Carver & Cabinet Maker. Selected from his Portfolios at his Decease, by C. H. Tatham Architect. AD 1800., late 18th century

Not on view · Victoria and Albert Museum