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Drawn and Described Immediately from Nature
held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009
the simple lines stood in contrast to the elaborate embellishments
and glass bead buttons complete the dress
638&A-1964)
Hippopotamus in Silver on Royal Blue Pinup dress Drawn and Described Immediately fromOne 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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