"Catching a Mermaid"
- Title
- "Catching a Mermaid"
- Artist
- J. C. Hook
- Artist Full Name
- James Clarke Hook (1819-1907)
- Status
- R.A.
- Date (Painted or Exhibited)
- 1883
- Type
- oil on canvas
- Size (HxW mm)
- 915 x 1393
- First Exhibited Location
- Royal Academy
- Current Location
- National Maritime Museum, London: BHC4162
- Lent By
- Humphrey Roberts, Esq.
- Catalog Number
- 217
- Catalog Page
- 24
- Alt-Text
- Three children in old-fashioned clothes stand on rocky seaside cliffs with waves crashing behind them under a cloudy sky. One boy pulls a net while the other two children watch from the rocks.