Study of a Hippopotamus, full length
1825
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1825
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Study of a Hippopotamus, full length is a 1825 by Henry Salt, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Henry Salt’s 1825 drawing shows a hippopotamus in full. Made during the Romantic period, it captures the animal’s size and texture with careful lines. Salt hunted one near Damietta in 1818 and wrote he’d gotten a “pretty correct drawing” of its skin. The work mixes science with wonder, feeding curiosity about big, rare beasts. Look up the Romanticism movement next.
