Lion of Gripsholm Castle #facts #animals #funny

This is the Lion of Gripsholm Castle, a notable example of bad taxidermy located in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden. In 1731, the dey of Algiers presented King Frederick I of Sweden with a lion, one of the first lions in Scandinavia. When the lion died, it was stuffed and mounted. Since taxidermist had never seen a lion before, he based the reconstruction on historic artworks of lions, as a result, mount was anatomically inaccurate.

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[Jaelismyhomegirl]

The taxidermist based his work on lions depicted on heraldic flags, which were very stylized, and always portrayed in profile, with one paw raised and its tongue sticking out like that (supposed to be mid-roar). So the profile mimics the pose seen on flags, but he was on his own trying to figure out what a lion’s face was supposed to look like. He might have looked at illuminated manuscripts, but the monks who illustrated them had never seen a lion either, so…

[Ryan_the_dawg]

Hahha the king must've had the taxidermists and the lion thrown into the sea 😂😂

[tomcook]

Why did they have to entirely reconstruct it? Was it smashed into smithereens or something?