The Canning Jewel (1800-1860), because muscular tattooed beardy hipster mermen have been a thing for longer than you may have realized.
#art history #jewelry #mermen #merman #kudos to the mystery jeweler who thought yeah this big knobbly pearl looks just like a muscly dude’s chest in a tight shirt #someone will want this hanging from their luxurious velvet robes at their intellectual literary salon you mark my words
This is the only art history analysis I want to read thanks