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SYMHC Classics: Walter Potter's Wild and Wonderful Taxidermy

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Taxidermis

The modern goal of taxidermis is to look as though the animal were once alive. And you certainly cannot say that about potter's work. Some of his a malformed creatures are more intended to look like their life like state. But these ones, once he gets into tableaux, it's really about creating something entirely new.

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