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Mermaid Sculptures at the Cleveland Museum of Art

July 27, 2024 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

Cleveland Mermaids

This sculpture of two mermaids was created by Fidardo Landi, an italian sculptor who came to America in 1900. Landi became a professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrera Italy at the age of 20, and came to America when he received a commission for a sculpture there. While Landi passed […]

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Mermaids sculptures in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

July 24, 2024 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

Phnom Penh Mermaid Fountain

I received an email from Lynn Barreto Miranda about the Mermaid Roundabout in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It appears the roundabout and the sculptures in the center were created in the 2016-12017 years, and that it has since become a prominent and well-known landmark. Lynn took a bunch of photos and has graciously allowed me to […]

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Southport’s Lord Street Mermaid

November 12, 2022 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

Southport's Mermaid Statue

The Lord Street Mermaid poses with a large fish in a fountain in Southport, on the west coast of England. The location is part of Southport’s Lord Street Town Trail. The mermaid fountain was commissioned by businessman Walter Connard as part of the entrance to his Palladium Picture Palace which opened in 1914. Lord Street […]

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Havis Amanda mermaid statue

October 8, 2022 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

Havis Amanda

You will find this sculpture from 1906, the Havis Amanda mermaid statue by Carl Wilhelm ‘Ville’ Vallgren, in Market Square in the southern part of Helsinki, Finland. The sculpture was named Merenneito (Mermaid) by the sculptor. He sculpted the bronze mermaid statue while living in Paris in 1906. A young Parisian named Marcelle Delquini was the model for […]

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Trafalgar Square Mermaids

October 1, 2022 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

Trafalgar Square Mermaid fountains

The Trafalgar Square mermaids are part of two large fountains in Trafalgar Square in London. The fountains commemorate Admirals Jellycoe and Beatty, with fantastic sculptures of mermaids, tritons and dolphins. Sir Edwin Lutyens designed the sculptures for the fountains in 1935, and the sculptures were created by William McMillan and Sir Charles Wheeler by 1939, but not installed until 1948 due to World War […]

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Mermaid at Wookey Hole

September 24, 2022 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

Wookey Hole Mermaid

You will find this mermaid at Wookey Hole near Wells, in the southwest of England. Wookey Hole is an actual hole in the ground – sort of in the shape you would expect if a meteor or large space ship crashed into the ground at a shallow angle. It is about 1000′ long and 200′ wide, and […]

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Mermaid Miranda of Dartmouth

September 17, 2022 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

Mermaid statue - Miranda, Mermaid of Dartmouth.

The mermaid Miranda of Dartmouth was inspired by the 1948 film “Miranda“, in which British actress Glynis Johns played the role of the mermaid Miranda. It is located on a private residence by the Dart Estuary, near Dartmouth Castle on the west bank of the River Dart. The life-size mermaid statue is known as Miranda, Mermaid of […]

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Carlsberg’s Little Mermaid

September 10, 2022 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

The Little Mermaid

If you visit Carlsberg Breweries in Copenhagen, you will encounter this half-size copy of Edvard Eriksen’s sculpture of The Little Mermaid. What is a mermaid doing at Carlsberg Breweries? She is there because the original world-famous statue of The Little Mermaid was commissioned in 1909 by Carlsberg’s owner Carl Jacobsen. A ballet based on the […]

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Denmark’s Little Mermaid

September 3, 2022 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

The Little Mermaid Statue in Copenhagen

I started writing about mermaid statues around the world about 10 years ago, creating pages and writing blogs about each of the sculptures I found. And yet somehow I never wrote a blog post specifically about the most famous of all the mermaid statues – the sculpture of The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen, Denmark. Yet […]

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The Big Mermaid

August 27, 2022 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

The New Mermaid

The Big Mermaid was commissioned by Danish restaurateur Peter Bech and installed in 2006. Bech commissioned it from China, carved in granite. It was originally installed a few hundred feet from the famous statue of The Little Mermaid, but in 2018 it was moved to the city of Dragør, some 10 miles south. The sculpture […]

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