Those Strange Victorians and Their Unusual Hobbies...

This is quite unlike anything I have ever seen before. My favourite is "The Lower Five's drinking den being raided by the police". Them rats sure do look like the're having a good time of it...

From The Telegraph Newspaper.
A bizarre collection of stuffed animals that was broken up and sold around the world seven years ago has been reassembled for a one-off exhibition. The eccentric works of Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter, in which stuffed animals mimic human life, were sold for more than £500,000 in 2003. Celebrities including comedian Harry Hill, photographer David Bailey and artist Peter Blake snapped up pieces from the 10,000-item collection in Mr Potter's eerie Museum of Curiosities. For more images go to:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/8059876/Walter-Potters-Museum-of-Curiosities-bizarre-Victorian-collection-of-stuffed-animals-goes-on-show-again.html

The Kittens wedding from Walter Potters Collection.