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until I found this delightful (if slightly guilty-looking) specimen in the 1918 book ‘Wild Animals of North America: Intimate Studies of Big and Little Creatures of the Mammal Kingdom’
ivory-coloured glass beads decorate the bodice and a gold sequin stands in for a brooch
with couched stitches decorating the neckline
Japanese tissue and cotton floss on cotton paper
likely during her first Society Season
Hippopotamus in Yellow & White Moose until I found this delightfulOne 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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