Humpback Whale in Gold on Royal Blue Victorian dress The shimmering combination of subtle

The shimmering combination of subtle colours evokes the silk chine and silk voile of the original dress

One of my favourite things about old natural history illustrations are the number of animals that were obviously drawn from descriptions

glass beads stand in for the buttons on the bodice

Korean hanji

The dress is six inches tall

Humpback Whale in Gold on Royal Blue Victorian dress The shimmering combination of subtleBased on a 1903 illustration of the Hump Backed Whale (Megaptera boops) from British mammals; an attempt to describe and illustrate the mammalian fauna of the British islands from the commencement of the Pleistocene period down to the present day. The whale is 4. 75 inches wide, 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 hang on your wall.