Winged & four-legged dragon in greens and gold Handbag cut down on the island

cut down on the island of Rhodes by the stratagem we have described

it’s taken me years to get a platypus design that I was happy with

28&A-1983)

The embroidery is chenille

but I had to find the perfect vintage illustration

Winged & four-legged dragon in greens and gold Handbag cut down on the islandThis is no ordinary dragon; it is based on an illustration described (in Latin) thusly: This is that winged and four legged dragon, memorable to all ages, which Deodatus de Gozon, a knight of Jerusalem, cut down on the island of Rhodes by the stratagem we have described, and who, because of the beneficence bestowed on the island, was afterwards created a great master of the order. The book I found it in, by Athanasius Kircher and dating from 1678, has