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Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy

Art / Photobook Out of Print
By: Pat A Morris(Author), Joanna Ebenstein(Author), Peter Blake(Foreword By)
122 pages, 300 colour & b/w photos and colour illustrations
Publisher: Constable
Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy
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  • Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy ISBN: 9781472109507 Hardback Sep 2013 Out of Print #209349
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Enter Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter's fantasy world of rabbit schoolchildren, cigar-smoking squirrels and exemplary feline etiquette at the kittens' tea party...

Walter Potter (1835-1918), a country taxidermist of no great expertise, became famous as an icon of Victorian whimsy. His tiny museum in Bramber, Sussex, was crammed full of multi-legged kittens, two-headed lambs and a bewildering assortment of curios.

Closed in the '70s, the museum was variously re-established before being auctioned off in 2003. It was reported that a £1 million bid by Damien Hirst to keep the collection intact was refused, but in 2010 many of Potter's key pieces were exhibited by the artist Sir Peter Blake at London's 'Museum of Everything', attracting over 30 000 visitors in 6 weeks. The subsequent dispersal of Potter's works has meant the loss of a truly unique Victorian legacy. Here, perhaps for the last time, the collection is preserved and celebrated with new photographs of Potter's best-loved works.

This is a new version of a book self-pubished by the author, Pat Morris. The text is much the same, but shorter. The main difference is that it includes lots of new digital (better) images, particularly of the items that have gone to America, and two of the tableaux that the author was unable to photograph properly himself.


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Biography

Pat Morris was Senior Lecturer in Zoology at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a DEFRA inspector for assessing the age and authenticity of antique taxidermy and has self-published seven illustrated books. His vast personal collection includes The Death & Burial of Cock Robin, Potter's largest and most important piece.

Joanna Ebenstein, a New York-based artist, curator, blogger and graphic designer, runs the Morbid Anatomy Library.

Art / Photobook Out of Print
By: Pat A Morris(Author), Joanna Ebenstein(Author), Peter Blake(Foreword By)
122 pages, 300 colour & b/w photos and colour illustrations
Publisher: Constable
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