Hippopotamus in Lime Green & Gold 1920s and 1930s dress In a departure from the

In a departure from the often ornate dresses of the time

Materials: Chiyogami and cotton floss on cotton paper

Based on a 1774 illustration of Dasypus tricinctus (Brazilian three-banded armadillo)’ from ‘Die Såugthiere in Abbildungen Nach Der Natur’

is made from Ajisai Japanese paper

Based on Metropolitan Museum of Art accession 2013

Hippopotamus in Lime Green & Gold 1920s and 1930s dress In a departure from theOne 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