'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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