Sea Maiden 20 Sarah with leatherback turtle by Robert Kline

Sea Maiden 20 Sarah with Leatherback Turtle

Mermaid with leatherback turtle art and story by Robert Kline

This wonderful mermaid with turtle print is available in the following matted sizes: 5″ x 7″, 8″ x 10″, 11″ x 14″ and an 11″ x 17″ that comes unmatted on a piece of 1/4″ foam board.

This beautiful mermaid swimming with a leatherback turtle art print and story are from a collection of Sea Maidens (mermaids), Sea Babies (mermaid babies), Sea Masters (merman), pirates, lighthouses and fairies created by renowned artist and novelist Robert Kline of St. Augustine, Florida.  The print is a lithograph reproduction of Robert’s original watercolor and pencil painting. Hand labeled and signed by Robert in pencil, all the prints come with a 1/4″ foam backing and the 5″ x 7″, 8″ x 10″, 11″ x 14″ are matted so all you need is a frame and they are ready to hang on your wall! Each print also comes with an excerpt from Robert’s novel The Forgotten Voyage of H.M.S. Baci. A fantastic saga in which multiple generations of the Roberts’ family explore the seven seas in search of the world’s mermaid and merman population. Thus, you receive the passage from Robert’s novel describing the particular event in which the character(s) in the print were sighted. The following is the excerpt written for the Sea Maiden 20 Sarah with leatherback turtle print:

“Lord above, look at the size of that Sea Turtle!” Edmund C. Roberts proclaimed. It was very large, at least a meter and a half along its carapace and swimming in the company of a beautiful Sea Maiden. That evening Roberts learned from some of the sailors on his ship that leatherback turtles sometimes reached twice that size, that they could dive to the deepest reaches of the ocean, and the shell itself was actually quite leather-like, capable of bleeding when abraded, and thus responsible for attracting sharks.”

“How dreadful,” the triplets intoned when the young naturalist informed them at dinner. And yet, the truly dreadful deed was unfolding coincidentally in the bowels of the good ship, Baci Finale. Jimmy, the loquacious ship’s engineer was interrupting an act of sabotage in progress. “You there,” he shouted about the thumbing and hissing of steam machinery. A man he thought was a member of the “black gang” of stokers looked up from his task. He was bent over the reciprocating perambulator, a huge wrench in one hand, a greasy packet in the other. “You there,” Jimmy repeated as he advanced into the shadows. “What are ya doin? Get away from there or you’d get us all killed! You’ve no business with the perambulator!” Just as the little man moved fully into the gloom another figure stepped out from behind the giant valve, raised his left arm and fired not one but two shots at the engineer. The first ricocheted harmlessly off a steam return pipe and whistled askew into the darkness but the next passed through Jimmy’s shoulder muscle and then went on with enough force to shatter the osmotic reflux gauge to his right, Splinters of high impact glass and a jet of scalding steam followed. Within seconds the counterbalanced equilibrium of the compound steam engine hiccoughed ominously before it settled back to a noticeably less stable pitch.

Edmund C. Roberts’ journal reads:
Trouble aboard our good ship. Repairs made, the engineer doctored, and a mystery to be solved. On a far lighter note, another Sea Maiden; number 20, named as Sarah, sighted, and yet another Sea Turtle. Leatherback.
March 30, 1913