Winged Dragon in Green Stomach metal bead

metal bead

known through the marriage of art and nature

and the skirt is constructed in a single piece that wraps around the hips and features three self-covered flat buttons at the back left

is held by the Museum at FIT (accession 91

which means that they will pop right into any commercial frame in that size

Winged Dragon in Green Stomach metal beadThis 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