taxidermical

By the bye, Tia Resleure, the artist who crafted the Bird Diva for Cindy, harbors a deep distaste for the Comical Rodent genre of taxidermical art.

Death and Taxidermy, for Cindy | clusterflock 2008

FISH being, perhaps, the most difficult things in the range of taxidermical science to set up in a satisfactory manner, I would impress upon the amateur to take particular note of their peculiarities of shape and colour, and to practise upon any easily-obtained and tough-skinned fish, such as the perch, which is, indeed, one of the best of all subjects for the purpose.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

I’m with T__ R_______ when it comes to a distaste for comic character pieces in the taxidermical vein, but I must say I kind of like the rodent Pope of Rome.

For Cindy | clusterflock 2009