Wild animal skins in Victorian Britain : zoos, collections, portraits, and maps / Ann C. Colley, State University College of New York at Buffalo, USA

Object Details

Contents

Industry, empire, portraiture, and skin at the Belle Vue Zoo, Manchester -- A skin disorder -- Stuff and nonsense : skin and Victorian animal portraiture -- Touch : reaching through the bars -- Wild skins and mapping the Victorian landscape

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Date

2014

Victoria, 1837-1901

Author

Colley, Ann C

Type

Books

Physical description

xii, 206 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Place

Great Britain

Topic

Zoological specimens--Collection and preservation--History

Hides and skins--Collection and preservation--History

Animals in art

Art, Victorian

Record ID

siris_sil_1046873

Usage

CC0