Humpback Whale in Gold on Royal Blue Victorian dress stitched by hand on 8x10

stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper

The shimmering combination of subtle colours evokes the silk chine and silk voile of the original dress

held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009

Korean hanji

Humpback Whale in Gold on Royal Blue Victorian dress stitched by hand on 8x10Based on a 1903 illustration of the Hump Backed Whale (Megaptera boops) from British mammals; an attempt to describe and illustrate the mammalian fauna of the British islands from the commencement of the Pleistocene period down to the present day. The whale is 4. 75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any commercial frame in that size, and be ready to hang on your wall.