Humpback Whale in Gold on Royal Blue Victorian dress One of my favourite things

One of my favourite things about old natural history illustrations are the number of animals that were obviously drawn from descriptions

Metallic blue tissue stands in for the beadworked panels of the original

The dress is six inches tall

The shimmering combination of subtle colours evokes the silk chine and silk voile of the original dress

stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper

Humpback Whale in Gold on Royal Blue Victorian dress One of my favourite thingsBased on a 1903 illustration of the Hump Backed Whale (Megaptera boops) from British mammals; an attempt to describe and illustrate the mammalian fauna of the British islands from the commencement of the Pleistocene period down to the present day. The whale is 4. 75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any commercial frame in that size, and be ready to hang on your wall.