| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - I have carefully preserved about two hundred specimens, in the best possible manner, yet they are still but the shadow of what they were in life.Certainly, Bullock???s specimens were poor replicas of the real thing, but whether the birds were crumbling or not, whether their sheen and shimmer had faded with sunlight and death, the birds were, nevertheless caught up in an aesthetic culture of roman
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