Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Blues

This 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 a similarly lengthy Latin title which translates as ‘The subterranean world, compiled into twelve books, as the divine work of the subterranean world, The wonderful distribution of the natural elements in it, in the word [pantamorphon] the kingdom of Proteus, the majesty and riches of all nature in the greatest variety of things are expounded, the causes of hidden effects are demonstrated by sharp investigation, known through the marriage of art and nature, prepared for the necessary use of human life by various experiments, and applied in a new way and with reason’.

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 commercial frame in that size, and be ready to hang on your wall.

Materials: Nepalese lokta & Japanese papers, glass bead, and metallic & cotton floss on cotton paper.