You may recognize it as one of the costumes from the most recent film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma (featuring Anya Taylor-Joy being perfect in every way)
By the 1820s colour was coming into fashion again
to Conform to the Legislation Making the Effects of Alcohol and Other Narcotics upon the Human System a Mandatory Study in Public Schools
held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 1989
But the book I found it in called it ‘Equus marinus monstrosus’
Moose in purples Met You may recognize it asBased on an 1881 illustration of the Male moose from The Antelope and Deer of America: A Comprehensive Treatise Upon the Natural History, Including the Characteristics, Habits, Affinities, and Capacity for Domestication of the Antilocapra and Cervidae of North America. The moose is 3. 25 inches tall, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any commercial frame in that size, and be ready to