At Windsor are designs he made for the construction of an imaginary beast with gigantic claws.

He once owned a lizard, and made wings for it with quicksilver inside them, so that they quivered when the lizard crawled.
He put a dragon's mask over its head, and the result was ghastly.

The tale gives us a side light on this extraordinary personage.

When you are led to read more about him you will feel the fascination of his strong, yet perplexing personality.

The faces in his pictures are wonderful faces, with a fugitive mocking smile and a seeming burden of strange thought.