Hippopotamus in Bronze on Blue Armadillo and is held by the

and is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession T

Thorpe’s ca

with couched stitches and glass beads decorating the neckline and the bottom of the tabard

held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 1989

The dress is six inches tall

Hippopotamus in Bronze on Blue Armadillo and is held by theOne of the funniest 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