Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Blues Chanterelles Based on Metropolitan Museum of

Based on Metropolitan Museum of Art accession 45

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Hand-embroidered lines imitate the folds of the dress

It is based on an 1811 illustration of the Vampire Bat from ‘The Natural History of Quadrupeds

Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Blues Chanterelles Based on Metropolitan Museum ofThis 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