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SYMHC Classics: Walter Potter's Wild and Wonderful Taxidermy

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Great Exhibit in London in 1851

There has been some discussion, but there's never been any corroboration that he might have been influenced by an exhibit at the great exhibition in london. He had an exhibit that was small animal taxidermy a. And it was basically the story of renicke the fox, which is based on the wilhelm von calbach etchings of gerte's mediaeval trickster tail. So many of the subjects we've discussed in the past, including deblina's last episode, there was some toilet inspiration at came from the great exhibition.

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