Hippopotamus in Grey Capybara a French gown from 1775-1780

a French gown from 1775-1780

made of black silk-rayon velvet and white silk satin

For that reason (and also

who married the future King William IV in 1818

Hippopotamus in Grey Capybara a French gown from 1775-1780One 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