Hello @Sophia1 and @Exoplanet @Appleblossom @Flax @Adge @Shaz51

and other visitors to this thread.

A short description of the

"Little Mermaid",

possibly of the Selkie fowlk

and other (relatively) modern adaptations of mythology, legend and fairy-tale.

All the links in the colour teale below, will take you to the relevent site and information. 

• The first photo is of “The Little Mermaid (Danish: Den lille Havfrue) is a bronze statue by Edvard Eriksen, depicting a mermaid becoming human. The sculpture is displayed on a rock by the waterside at the Langelinie promenade in Copenhagen, Denmark.[a] It is 1.25 metres (4.1 ft) tall[2] and weighs 175 kilograms (385 lb).[3]

   

• "Based on the 1837 fairy tale of the same name by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, the small and unimposing statue is a Copenhagen icon and has been a major tourist attraction since its unveiling in 1913.

  The statue was commissioned in 1909 by Carl Jacobsen, son of the founder of Carlsberg, who had been fascinated by a ballet about the fairytale in Copenhagen's Royal Theatre and asked the ballerina, Ellen Price, to model for the statue. The sculptor Edvard Eriksen created the bronze statue, which was unveiled on August 23, 1913.[5] The statue's head was modelled after Price, but as the ballerina did not agree to model in the nude, the sculptor's wife, Eline Eriksen, posed for the body.[5]

• The third photo is of the “Assembly of the Little Mermaid statue (Copenhagen, Langeline, 1913).”

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I was going back through some of the pages and saw the photo, that @Flax  had added, of the mermaid in Denmark. I remember seeing the statue in 1975, on a trip under-taken in that year.

The photo above shows the statue from a different angle, and with a different background. The notes above, with written material in Dark Blue, are from Wikipedia articles on

“The Little Mermaid (statue)”

and also include Wikipedia articles about other statues below.

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Other similar images and statues, some connected with the folk-tales, have been placed in other cities around the world.

"There are similarities between The Little Mermaid statue and the "Pania of the Reef " statue on the beachfront at Napier in New Zealand, and some similarities in the little mermaid and Pania tales.

The Statue of Pania (also known as Pania of the Reef) is located on Marine Parade in Napier, New Zealand, and honours the life of Pania, a figure of Māori mythology." 

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"The 1972 statue of a female diver (titled Girl in a Wetsuit by Elek Imredy) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada was commissioned when, unable to obtain permission to reproduce the Copenhagen statue, Vancouver authorities selected a modern version.[24]" 

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Of course Selkie Fowlk had no need for artificial diving apparatus.

Best Wishes

@HenryX