Hippopotamus in Silver & Magenta Handbag The dress hangs in two

The dress hangs in two tiers

and the lace edging of the top

These four-button shoes are from an Edwardian design

If you look closely

Accurately Coloured from Nature

Hippopotamus in Silver & Magenta Handbag The dress hangs in twoOne 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