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Dead and Beautiful: The Art of Taxidermy

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Rats, squirrels, and dead kittens in their Sunday best—revealing the strange art of Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter.

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Joanna Ebenstein and Pat Morris

Yes, those really are stuffed kittens dressed in finely detailed Victorian garb at a wedding, and that really is a squirrel at the club playing cribbage with a cigar hanging out of his mouth.

Welcome to the weird and strange tableaux by the once well-known taxidermist Walter Potter, the subject a...

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