Ostrich in pink and silver LACMA Thorpe’s ca

Thorpe’s ca

25 inches wide

it always looked blue to me in the photographs

Nepalese paper in gold scallops on black stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny metallic and black glass beads

Ostrich in pink and silver LACMA Thorpe’s caThis ostrich is based on an illustration from Johann Daniel Meyers 1748 book Angenehmer Und Ntzlicher Zeit Vertreib Mit Betrachtung Curioser Vorstellungen Allerhand Kriechender, Fliegender Und Schwimmender, Auf Dem Land Und Im Wasser Sich Befindender Und Nhrender Thiere. In English, thats A pleasant and useful pastime, with the contemplation of curious ideas about all sorts of crawling, flying, and swimming animals, living and feeding on land and in