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a French gown from 1775-1780
This hand-stitched paper afternoon suit is made from a pearly yellow Japanese paper accented with blue trim and yellow beads
who married the future King William IV in 1818
Ancient and Modern
The catalogue describes it as an “Embroidered French Gingham Dress Pattern
Hippopotamus in Grey Capybara a French gown from 1775-1780One 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
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