Rackham’s Mermaids

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” The Rhine’s fair children, Bewailing their lost gold, weep “
From : The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie
The Rhine-Maidens teasing Alberich · From : The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie
” Mock away ! Mock ! The Niblung makes for your toy ! “
“Seize the despoiler ! Rescue the gold ! Help us ! Help us ! Woe! Woe!”
The frolic of the Rhine-Maidens · From : The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie

All illustrations are from : The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie by Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Illustrations by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). Published in 1910. New York Public Library at internet archive

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