Kittens that drink tea and toads that play leapfrog: world of a Victorian taxidermist in special one-off exhibition

They look perfectly civilised, carefully passing cups and plates around a large table while enjoying afternoon tea.
But these guests are in fact stuffed kittens in an odd piece of artwork which will make up part of a special one-off exhibition.
It is just one piece of a bizarre Victorian collection of stuffed animals which was broken up and sold around the world seven years ago.
The eccentric world of taxidermist Walter Potter, where stuffed animals mimic human life including toads playing leapfrog and rat police raiding a drinking den, was sold for more than £500,000 in 2003.
Mr Potter started his collection at the age of 19 when his canary died and he dissected the bird before stuffing it for display in the family summer house.
His family kept his museum in Bramber, West Sussex, open after his death in 1918, but it closed in the 1970s.
The collection was moved to Brighton and then to Arundel before finally ending up in Cornwall.
The Museum of Everything's founder, James Brett, said: 'The idea of re-creating the Potter museum began as a chance remark by Peter and it became an obsession to bring it back together.
'It has taken over my life. But Potter was worth it, he was a true original and himself an outsider artist as much as a craftsman.
'I can tell a Potter from the work of another taxidermist at a glance across a room - he was a genius.'