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Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy - Foreword by Sir Peter Blake (Paperback)
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Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy - Foreword by Sir Peter Blake (Paperback)
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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 GBP1M 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.
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