Monstrous Seahorse in Pale Turquoise & Gold dragon an attempt to describe and

an attempt to describe and illustrate the mammalian fauna of the British islands from the commencement of the Pleistocene period down to the present day’

the simple lines stood in contrast to the elaborate embellishments

Materials: Japanese and Nepalese paper

or the exaggerated curves and nipped in waist of the Victorian era

This ostrich is based on an illustration from Johann Daniel Meyer’s 1748 book Angenehmer Und Nützlicher Zeit-Vertreib Mit Betrachtung Curioser Vorstellungen Allerhand Kriechender

Monstrous Seahorse in Pale Turquoise & Gold dragon an attempt to describe andYou are probably looking at this creature and thinking, Judith, thats clearly a Hippocampus, and you would be correct! But the book I found it in called it Equus marinus monstrosus, which translates as Monstrous seahorse. And who can resist a name like that? The book is the delightfully named Monstrorum historia, or History of Monsters, by Ulisse Aldrovandi; it dates from 1642. My monstrous seahorse is 4. 75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch