Hippopotamus in Lilac Polar bear held by the Museum at

held by the Museum at FIT (accession P85

Materials: Nepalese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

Hardback edition

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Hippopotamus in Lilac Polar bear held by the Museum atOne 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