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held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009
stitched by hand on 100% cotton water colour paper
The dress was worn by a debutante
just when Phryne Fisher was making a splash in St
638&A-1964)
Hippopotamus in Silver on Royal Blue Pinup dress held by the Metropolitan MuseumOne 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
