This charming drawing might be a self portrait of the artist – Oliver Herford. In this drawing he is painting the mythical creature known as a hippograff (also spelled Hippogryph and Hippogryphe, Italian: Ippogrifo). Use this copyright free image for your next creative project.
The author of The Mythological Zoo introduced the children of 1912 to a menagerie full of mythological beasts, heroes and villians. All of them were brought to life by the artist Oliver Herford (1863-1935).
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