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This hand-stitched pink Regency dress is made from Japanese paper with a pearlized filigree pattern and accented with glass beads on the sleeves
75 inches wide
Based on Metropolitan Museum of Art accession 2013
Based on a 1774 illustration of Dasypus tricinctus (Brazilian three-banded armadillo)’ from ‘Die Såugthiere in Abbildungen Nach Der Natur’
Hippopotamus in Lime Green & Gold 1920s and 1930s dress This hand-stitched pink Regency dressOne 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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