Video: Victorian Kittens and Squirrels: Walter Potter Taxidermy Museum
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
"Cat wedding" is not necessarily the screams of animals under the windows. One of the famous works of the Victorian taxidermist artist Walter Potter bears the same name. This man made stuffed animals, often dressed them up and built massive mute scenes. This is how funny taxidermic compositions appeared: a squirrel gambling house, a parish school for rabbits, a raid in a rat den. Each character demanded attention, each needed a flavor. So, it is interesting to look at the costumes of all 20 participants of the "Cat's Wedding", and the "Rabbit School" is thought out to the smallest detail, despite the fact that there are as many as 27 eared pupils with slate boards and a rabbit teacher in the class.
The history of the taxidermy museum begins in the 19th century, when Walter Potter was just beginning to make stuffed animals, and his sister Jane showed him a children's book with animals dressed like human beings. The beginning was quite in the spirit of the era, so lovers of curiosities soon flocked to the village of Bramber. There were so many tourists that the platform of the local railway station had to be lengthened.
Walter Potter died during the First World War, leaving about 10 thousand animals behind. In the twentieth century, interest in Victorian whims gradually faded away, the animals changed owners every now and then, and the museum was closed and reopened. In the end, the taxidermy collection was sold to private traders in 2003.
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