Ostrich in pink and silver Whale the sixth volume of his

the sixth volume of his epic ‘Natural history of the quadrupeds’ published between 1650 and 1652

the original illustration for this ‘Polupus’ is from Conrad Gessner’s ‘Icones animalium quadrupedum uiuiparorum et ouiparorum’

held by LACMA (accession M

The dress is stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper

Ostrich in pink and silver Whale the sixth volume of hisThis ostrich is based on an illustration from Johann Daniel Meyers 1748 book Angenehmer Und Ntzlicher Zeit Vertreib Mit Betrachtung Curioser Vorstellungen Allerhand Kriechender, Fliegender Und Schwimmender, Auf Dem Land Und Im Wasser Sich Befindender Und Nhrender Thiere. In English, thats A pleasant and useful pastime, with the contemplation of curious ideas about all sorts of crawling, flying, and swimming animals, living and feeding on land and in