Hippopotamus in Red & Pink Strawberries Met as it differs from the

as it differs from the swags of fabric often found all over Victorian bustle dresses (although I love those

Materials: Japanese paper

is made from a shimmery Japanese paper

the original is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2016

Hippopotamus in Red & Pink Strawberries Met as it differs from theOne 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