Winged & four-legged dragon in greens and gold Handbag the original is held by

the original is held by Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009

This ostrich is based on an illustration from Johann Daniel Meyer’s 1748 book Angenehmer Und Nützlicher Zeit-Vertreib Mit Betrachtung Curioser Vorstellungen Allerhand Kriechender

28&A-1983)

but I had to find the perfect vintage illustration

Winged & four-legged dragon in greens and gold Handbag the original is held byThis 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