Taxidermy: A Late Victorian Cased Common Roach (Rutilus rutilus)

Taxidermy: A Late Victorian Cased Common Roach (Rutilus rutilus), circa 1870, by William Gibson, Naturalist, 19 Richmond Grobe, Barnsbury, London, (Rutilus rutilus), Taxidermy: A Late Victorian Cased Common Roach (Rutilus rutilus), circa 1870, by William Gibson, Naturalist, 19 Richmond Grobe, Barnsbury, London, a skin-mount preserved and mounted within a naturalistic setting amidst reeds and grasses, set above a pebbled riverbed, mounted against a pale-blue painted backdrop, enclosed within a typical ebonised bow-fronted three-glass display case, 52.5cm by 15.5cm by 31cm, taxidermist's full paper trade label to case interior upper left

Estimate:£400

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