Monstrous Seahorse in Gold Dots on Purple Costume it was made by royal

it was made by royal tailors J

an English silk brocade day dress from ca

Celadon stitches stand in for the embroidered trim

Nepalese paper in gold scallops on black stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny metallic and black glass beads

with its pointed train epitomizing the highest style of the time

Monstrous Seahorse in Gold Dots on Purple Costume it was made by royalYou 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