Hippopotamus in Silver on Royal Blue Met The jacket is 4 inches

The jacket is 4 inches tall

My armadillos have rhinestone scales

Based on an 1824 illustration of the Giraffe femelle from ‘Histoire Naturelle Des Mammifères : Avec Des Figures Originales

The boot is 4 inches tall

The original dress is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession CIRC

Hippopotamus in Silver on Royal Blue Met The jacket is 4 inchesOne 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