Little mermaid original order watercolour

Original watercolour painting featuring The Little Mermaid by H. C. Andersen.

Painted on Canson Moulin du Roy 300 g cold-pressed watercolour paper, 100% cotton.

The painting measures 23x30 cm or 9/12 inch and is sent in a protective plastic sleeve with a sturdy cardboard.

The painting is NOT framed NOR matted.

The price includes shipping per UPS, tracking number will be provided.

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The Little mermaid is a fairy tale by Danish author H.C. Andersen.

The Little Mermaid dwells in an underwater kingdom with her father and her five older sisters. According to the tradidion, when a mermaid turns 15, she is permitted to swim to the surface for the first time to experience the world above. The little mermaid's sisters turn 15 and each of them swims to the surface. When they come back they tell their little sisters about all the marvelous things they have seen. The little mermaid longs to see the world above and she can't wait to turn 15 as well.

When her turn comes, she rises up to the surface, witnesses a birthday celebration being held on a ship in honor of a handsome prince, and falls in love with him. A violent storm hits, and the Little Mermaid saves the prince from drowning, delivering him unconscious on a shore neraby.

The Little Mermaid becomes melancholy and eventually visits the Sea Witch. The witch sells her a potion that gives her legs in exchange for her voice. The Sea Witch warns that once she becomes a human, she will never be able to return to the sea. Consuming the potion will make her feel as if a sword is being passed through her body, yet when she recovers, she will have two human legs and will be able to dance like no human has ever danced before. However, she will constantly feel as if she is walking on sharp knives and as though her toes are bleeding. In addition, she will obtain a soul only if she wins the love of the prince and marries him. Otherwise, at dawn on the first day after he marries another woman, the Little Mermaid will die.

The Little Mermaid agrees to this arrangement. The Little Mermaid swims to the surface near the palace of the prince and drinks the potion. She is found by the prince, who is mesmerized by her beauty and grace, even though she is considered by everyone in the kingdom as dumb and mute. Most of all, he likes to see her dance, and she dances for him despite suffering excruciating pain with every step. Soon, the Little Mermaid becomes the prince's favorite companion and accompanies him on many of his outings. When the prince's parents order their son to order marry the neighboring princess in an arranged marriage and the royal wedding is announced at once.

The prince and princess celebrate on a wedding ship, and the Little Mermaid's heart breaks. She despairs, thinking of the death that awaits her, but before dawn, her sisters rise out of the water and bring her a dagger that the Sea Witch has given them in exchange for their long, beautiful hair. If the Little Mermaid slays the prince with the dagger and lets his blood drip on her feet, she will become a mermaid once more, all her suffering will end, and she will live out her full life in the ocean with her family.

However, the Little Mermaid cannot bring herself to kill the sleeping prince lying with his new bride, and she throws the dagger and herself off the ship into the water just as dawn breaks. Her body dissolves into foam, but instead of ceasing to exist, she feels the warm sun and discovers that she has turned into a luminous and ethereal earthbound spirit, a daughter of the air.