"Ghastly couple Sir Barnaby and Lady Baboon could be relied on to make an unseemly spectacle at the Major's annual fancy dress ball."

Sir Barnaby and Lady Baboon are, in the truest sense, a unit. He in his military finery, she in enough red silk to upholster a small hotel — together they constitute what polite society privately refers to as a situation. Nobody invites them. Nobody needs to. They arrive regardless, and they will not be leaving early.

One rather suspects they enjoy the horror they inspire.

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.