How To Use Taxidermy In A Sentence
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Situated on the ground floor of the Natural History complex inside the Museum premises, the Museum Library is a cornucopia of books on subjects ranging from Taxidermy to maintenance of gardens.
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In 1824 Gould set up his taxidermy business in London and became the first taxidermist to enjoy royal patronage when he stuffed a Thick Knee'd Bustard for King George IV.
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More than 40 new curators have been taken on, with experts in everything from Chinese painting to metalwork, taxidermy, armoury and gilding.
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Other artists include expressionist portraitist Chantal Joffe, taxidermy specialist Polly Morgan, designer Pam Hogg pictured and Marcus Harvey, best-known for that tabloid-shocker painting of Myra Hindley, realised with children's hand-prints.
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For the animal parts, she worked from taxidermy specimens.
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I suspect this puts natural limits to a small renaissance, noted in our pages yesterday, in the art of taxidermy.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the taxidermy art gives me the shudders.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not long ago, she began photographing the Peabody Museum's taxidermy collection.
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Besides badminton, sister pursuits of poetry composition today might include butterfly collecting, taxidermy, face painting and spelunking.
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But the taxidermy art gives me the shudders.
Times, Sunday Times
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Taxidermy Began with the ancient custom of keeping trophies of the hunt.
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Stuffing, inevitably, was something that Davis was pretty familiar with, for in what he quaintly refers to as his ‘downtime’, he likes nothing more than to pootle away at his taxidermy.
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There will also be a show of local crafts including fretwork, crystal glass, embroidery, dancing costumes, placemats, potted plants, flowers, and taxidermy.
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I suspect this puts natural limits to a small renaissance, noted in our pages yesterday, in the art of taxidermy.
Times, Sunday Times
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In winter, hunters come for the wild game shoots, which explains the rifles on the wall and the disparate taxidermy.
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Interestingly enough there was an old stuffed bird sitting over in one corner, a poor example of the taxidermy art.
Christianity Today
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It is not known whether John Gould was instructed in taxidermy or self-taught, but his earliest bird specimens showed great skill in preparation.
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Rather than ridicule taxidermy as barbaric or bizarre, Abecassis wisely chooses to let her subjects reveal themselves through their fastidious work habits and aesthetic concerns.
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His materials and settings are drawn from the substratum of his experience as a curator, trained in taxidermy, active in the conservation of paintings and the handling of fossils, fascinated by animal maquettes and mediaeval weapons.
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But the taxidermy art gives me the shudders.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having qualified as a taxidermist from the North-Western School of Taxidermy, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A. in 1969, Gerry set up a taxidermy studio and fur exporting business in 1975.
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There will also be a show of local crafts including fretwork, crystal glass, embroidery, dancing costumes, placemats, potted plants, flowers, and taxidermy.
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The real wild animals hunted by Roosevelt and others had to be killed before they could be reconstructed through taxidermy and exhibited in the dioramas of America's museums.
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She once explained her passion for taxidermy by saying: ‘You get an animal that's blasted and shot up, and you think, how on earth am I going to fix this?’
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But the taxidermy art gives me the shudders.
Times, Sunday Times
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The process of taxidermy sees the skin of an animal removed, preserved and arranged around a model of the original body.
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A Case of Curiosities is devoted to the art of taxidermy, decorative, restorative and anthropomorphic.
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Located in the Vendée, it is the definition of fairytale, with "floating" towers on the corners of the chateau and flamboyant interiors featuring unicorn taxidermy and chandeliers.
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We bought a 100-year-old taxidermy lobster here and a stunning stereogram.
Times, Sunday Times
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Back in the 1800's, Mr. Potter (I'n hoping he's not relation to Beatrix because that would be way too creepy) took taxidermy to a new level.
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A middle-class Midwesterner, he was weaned on Daniel Defoe and raised on hunting, hiking, and taxidermy.
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For example. subtopics include: animal grooming. taxidermy. embalming. electrolysis. nail technician. culinary arts. wine steward and server. among others.
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The gamekeeper, Stephane - played by Denis Lavant - is interested in trapping and taxidermy.
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We do taxidermy, which means we arrange skin; we try to put the appearance of life back into what was destroyed in the hunt.
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At McCallie Military School he practised amateur taxidermy and grew lawn grass in his bedroom; he was expelled from Brown University after being caught with a woman in his rooms.
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Flying monkey, griffon, and unicorn -- the least horrifying taxidermy creatures on display (and for sale) at Sarina Brewer's site.
Taxidermy fantasy creatures
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Interestingly enough there was an old stuffed bird sitting over in one corner, a poor example of the taxidermy art.
Christianity Today
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Others have no stomach for killing, and practise taxidermy merely as an art.
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That direction converges at the New York Museum of Natural History where dioramas and taxidermy reconfigure notions of exhibition, eugenics and conservation.
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Scriver's success in sculpting animal forms for his taxidermy work encouraged the artist to pursue more traditional forms of sculpture.
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Others have no stomach for killing, and practise taxidermy merely as an art.
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Among other works evocative of a colonial place and time was Paris-based Huang Yong Ping's taxidermy representation of an event involving a hunting elephant besieged by an enraged tiger.
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But then you spy the Jivaro Shrunken Head (it's real, it's the size of a tennis ball); conjoined piglets in a jar; an assload of taxidermy, including a gorgeous zebra head; giant's rings ...
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But, thanks to Heaney's artistic taxidermy, the story and all it symbolizes will endure well into the new millennium.
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Gould saw an opportunity and demonstrated an immediate aptitude for the art of taxidermy.
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There will also be a show of local crafts including fretwork, crystal glass, embroidery, dancing costumes, place mats, potted plants, flowers, and taxidermy.
