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2 unusual facts about Harrison Weir


George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland

In 1871 the Duke of Sutherland sent a wild cat with a badly injured foreleg trapped in Sutherlandshire to the first Crystal Palace Cat Show held in July and organized by Harrison Weir.

Harrison Weir

Weir was a natural history artist and provided some of the illustrations for the Rev John George Wood's "Illustrated Natural History" (1853), served as chief illustrator for Charles St John's "Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands," and designed all of the illustrations for George Fyler Townsend's "Three Hundred Æsop's Fables" (1867).



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