Hippocampus rearing up
Hippocampus - side view
This hippocampus stands 13" high and is created in wire and fine stretched paper with a corrugated paper tail fin
Polly Verity 2007
Photographs
on this page by CS
Stevens
other wire
creaturesHippocampus
The
Hippocampus is a mythological creature shared by
Phoenician and Greek mythology. It is typically depicted as a
horse in its forepart with a coiling, scaly, fishlike hind-quarters.
The horse appears in Homeric poems as the symbol of Poseidon,
whose chariot was drawn over the surface of the sea by swift horses.
In Hellenistic and Roman imagery, however, Poseidon (or Roman Neptune)
often drives a sea-chariot drawn by hippocamps.