Monstrous Seahorse in Silver & Black Hedgehog ‘Bouc de Nepaul’

‘Bouc de Nepaul’

the dress also includes a tassel hanging from a trio of beads

The original dress is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2013

which means that it will pop right into any commercial frame in that size

to echo the original French silk

Monstrous Seahorse in Silver & Black Hedgehog ‘Bouc de Nepaul’You 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