Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Wine Hedgehog Nepalese paper in gold scallops

Nepalese paper in gold scallops on black stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny metallic and black glass beads

New York: The Company

Based on an 1881 illustration of the Male moose from ‘The Antelope and Deer of America: A Comprehensive Treatise Upon the Natural History

which I’ve replicated with a metallic hemp & silk tissue

James also created a stole using a similar shape

Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Wine Hedgehog Nepalese paper in gold scallopsThis is no ordinary dragon; it is based on an illustration described (in Latin) thusly: This is that winged and four legged dragon, memorable to all ages, which Deodatus de Gozon, a knight of Jerusalem, cut down on the island of Rhodes by the stratagem we have described, and who, because of the beneficence bestowed on the island, was afterwards created a great master of the order. The book I found it in, by Athanasius Kircher and dating from 1678, has