Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Wine Anteater Materials: Japanese paper and cotton

Materials: Japanese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

metallic tissue

The gigot sleeves of the upper arm are gathered into tight sleeves from below the elbows to the wrists

Materials: Decorative paper

Based on a 1774 illustration of Bos Bison (American Bison) from ‘Die Såugthiere in Abbildungen Nach Der Natur’

Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Wine Anteater Materials: Japanese paper and cottonThis 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