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Loca Miraculi_room 1_wood cabinet surrounded with branches
Loca Miraculi_room 1_wood cabinet with deer and birds
Loca Miraculi_room 1_cabinet shelves with taxidermied birds
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Loca Miraculi_room 1_wood cabinet with minerals shells

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Loca Miraculi, Gallery One: The Animal Cabinet

dimensions variable
2008-2013
mahogary and tulip poplar cabinet, taxidermied animals, graphite

The animal kingdom is represented by two groups of birds, along with a deer. A variety of wild birds, including a grebe, a woodcock, quail, and sparrows, along with three parakeets, are arranged on the stepped shelves on top of the cabinet. Specimens of different chicken breeds surround the cabinet base.

High chest with stepped display gallery, ca. 1745. Attributed to Christopher Townsend, Newport, Rhode Island.

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