"When inveterate gossip Miss Penelope Pelican vowed total discretion, her luncheon companions knew her promises were as empty as her purse when the bill arrived."

Miss Penelope Pelican knows everything about everyone and has never once kept it to herself. She vows discretion the way others order dessert — with enthusiasm and no intention of following through. The hat is extraordinary. The bill, when it comes, will be someone else's problem.

Her luncheon companions have learned to order accordingly.

They belong to Animabilia – a cast of ten sets of African animals reimagined as members of a deliciously fading Edwardian society. Think Downton Abbey, but on the savannah. A world of croquet lawns and dwindling dinner invitations, of notorious libertines and inveterate gossips, of fancy dress balls and expeditions nobody asked to hear about. Each print is a digital collage combining authentic Victorian and Edwardian fashion engravings with vintage natural history illustrations of African wildlife – two worlds that have absolutely no business being together, and yet are completely convincing.

If you've been looking for wall art that is genuinely original, quietly witty, and actually worth looking at closely – this is it.