Hippopotamus in Gold & Silver on Red Penguin and is based on an

and is based on an American dress from Strawbridge & Clothier's Quarterly' (vol

is made from a shimmery Japanese paper

This little helix atrolabiata snail was documented by Wilhelm Kobelt in Russia in 1903

75 inches wide

Hippopotamus in Gold & Silver on Red Penguin and is based on anOne 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