Early British Stereoview View: Botanical Anatomy wabi sabi I found this little pig

I found this little pig sitting next to a Schoenhut donkey on a shelf

Hard to beat these smiling faces I think

so there are quite a bunch here

looking askance) a bit different in style than the others

but this one

Early British Stereoview View: Botanical Anatomy wabi sabi I found this little pigI must say I like the back almost as much as the front of this early stereoview, with fancy cut and adhered label simply reading "Botanical Anatomy."The photos seem one part specimen obsession and one part early Victorian diorama of the whole world encased under a dome sort of variety. I presume it is actual plant specimens that have been painstakingly arranged, but there is certainly an ethereality about it almost as if an x ray view and definite