ANIMALS IN DANGER

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This painting shows Marie Elizabeth Woodhouse surrounded by beautiful living birds. She is using a fan made from bird feathers. This was just the kind of thing that Emily Williamson wanted to stop.

Victorian artists like Woodhouse often painted stuffed birds This allowed them to study the birds’ feathers and patterns. Preserving birds and animals was seen as a way of studying them better

You can see that she is sitting on a tiger skin rug These were often used to decorate people's homes in Victorian times, as men would go to India to hunt and bring back the skins as trophies. Tigers are now, thankfully, a protected species