A whimsical drawing of a mythical griffin dressed as a dandy. Also know as gryphins or gryphons, this creature is often associated with treasure and this whimsical drawing portrays our friend as a wealthy dandy.
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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