Winged Dragon in Blues LACMA and metallic and cotton floss

and metallic and cotton floss on cotton paper

gives the shoulders the wide

prepared for the necessary use of human life by various experiments

and glass bead buttons complete the dress

1900 and is held by the McCord-Stewart Museum (accession M977

Winged Dragon in Blues LACMA and metallic and cotton flossThis legless winged dragon is from a 1742 book by Charles Owen, titled An Essay towards a Natural History of Serpents: In Two Parts. It is further subtitled Illustrated with Copper Plates, Engraved by the Best Hands: The Whole Intermixd with Variety of Entertaining Digressions, Philosophical and Historical. The dragon is 4. 75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any