Hippopotamus in Yellow & White 1920s and 1930s dress metallic thread

metallic thread

decoration is kept to the bottom portion of the skirt

or Common Hedgehog) from ‘Die Såugthiere in Abbildungen Nach Der Natur’

The design is based on an afternoon dress from Redfern

Hippopotamus in Yellow & White 1920s and 1930s dress metallic threadOne 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