' ‘Hagen and the Mermaids,' by William Brown Macdougall (original) (raw)

'Hagen and the Mermaids’

William Brown Macdougall

1897

Wood engraving

8½ x 5½ inches

Illustration in The Fall of the Nibelungs, facing 170

An example of Macdougall’s neo-medievalism in which he works in the idiom of Arts and Crafts, combining an image with an elaborate border in the manner of Morris and Burne Jones’s ‘Kelmscott Chaucer’ (1896).

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