Monstrous Seahorse in Lime Green & Gold mouse Dessinées D'aprèsdes Animaux Vivans

Dessinées D'aprèsdes Animaux Vivans

Boston accession 64-676a-f

This hand-stitched dress is made from shimmering pale yellow Japanese paper

Based on Metropolitan Museum of Art accession 2009

My armadillos have rhinestone scales

Monstrous Seahorse in Lime Green & Gold mouse Dessinées D'aprèsdes Animaux VivansYou are probably looking at this creature and thinking, Judith, thats clearly a Hippocampus, and you would be correct! But the book I found it in called it Equus marinus monstrosus, which translates as Monstrous seahorse. And who can resist a name like that? The book is the delightfully named Monstrorum historia, or History of Monsters, by Ulisse Aldrovandi; it dates from 1642. My monstrous seahorse is 4. 75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch