photo credit: TennantsBoxing Badger Cubs by Peter Spicer Working from his landmark shop in Leamington Spa during the late Victorian…
thevelvetdrawingroom15 December 2024
DARWIN, WALLACE AND BUFFON It is impossible to look at the Victorians and the explosion of the interest and awakening…
thevelvetdrawingroom7 December 2024
Today's Taxidermy Revival Taxidermy has come back in from the cold to become ultra chic. Taxidermy animals (including replicas) are…
thevelvetdrawingroom12 December 2024
Decoration of Country Houses with Taxidermy Taxidermy was once a major business in Britain before its final demise in the…
thevelvetdrawingroom7 December 2024
E.F. Spicer Taxidermist of Birmingham Above - a postcard image of the E.F. Spicer taxidermy shop at 58 Suffolk Street…
thevelvetdrawingroom15 December 2024
Hermann Ploucquet's sensational displays and tableaux at the Great Exhibition 1851 stole the show with kittens taking tea, duelling Dormice…
thevelvetdrawingroom7 December 2024
Fantastic Beasts Taxidermy At The Great Exhibition 1851 Taxidermy At The Great Exhibition 1851 Much has been written about how…
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OVERVIEW Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild of Tring will always occupy a place of honour in the history of Zoology. The collections…
thevelvetdrawingroom15 December 2024
Taxidermists | Naturalists | Osteologists | Model Makers | Furriers 19th Century Edward Gerrard The work and history of Edward…
thevelvetdrawingroom15 December 2024
