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Hippopotamus in Lilac 18th century dress and applied in a new

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and applied in a new way and with reason’

it is hand stitched in cotton floss onto cold-pressed 100% cotton paper

Based on a 1774 illustration of Bradypus torquatus (Brazilian three-toed sloth) from ‘Die Såugthiere in Abbildungen Nach Der Natur’

the dress was featured in the February 1929 issue of ‘Les Modes : revue mensuelle illustrée des Arts décoratifs appliqués à la femme’

– in such a creation

Hippopotamus in Lilac 18th century dress and applied in a newOne of my favourite things about old natural history illustrations are the number of animals that were obviously drawn from descriptions, by artists who had never seen the real thing. So many old hippo drawings just looked all wrong, with little tiny heads! I finally found a happy hippo with a properly gigantic head in the 1895 book Brehm's Life of Animals: A Complete Natural History for Popular Home Instruction and for the Use of Schools. The

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