Cats Collection (#13)

The Majors Courtship, or He Improves his Situation, 1848, (1965). A merchants daughter, wearing an elaborate flounced and layered dress, prepares to meet the major waiting in the next room

The Execution of Louisa Mabree, the French Midwife. Creator: Unknown
The Execution of Louisa Mabree, the French Midwife. A woman is burned alive in a cage filled with black cats suspended over a blazing fire

Covent Garden at Mid-Day, 1738, (1925). Creator: William Hogarth
Covent Garden at Mid-Day, 1738, (1925). William Hogarths Noon (Four Times of The Day) sets the lives of the English working classes against the aristocracy

One of the Best-Established Trades: A Customer and the Cats-Meat Man, c1935. Creator
One of the Best-Established Trades: A Customer and the Cats-Meat Man, c1935. Itinerant street-sellers of pet food were known as cats meat men

The Cat Did It, from The Greatest Plague of Life, pub. 1847. Creator: George Cruikshank (1792-1878)
The Cat Did It, from The Greatest Plague of Life, pub. 1847 (engraving)

Wallpaper design, from Idees, c1925. Creator: Georges Darcy (fl. c. 1925)
Wallpaper design, from Idees, published by A. Calavas, Paris, c.1925 (colour lithograph)

Sleeping dog and cat, c1951. Creator: Shirley Markham
Sleeping dog and cat, c1951. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952

Man looking out of window, 1952. Creator: Shirley Markham
Man looking out of window, 1952. Book illustration. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952

Old woman and cat, 1951. Creator: Shirley Markham
Old woman and cat, 1951. Elderly woman in an armchair by a hearth, with her cat at her feet. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design

Boarding house landlady, 1952. Creator: Shirley Markham
Boarding house landlady, 1952. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952

Girl with hoop, 1951. Creator: Shirley Markham
Girl with hoop, 1951. Child playing, with experimental mark-making. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952

Three witches, c1950. Creator: Shirley Markham
Three witches, c1950. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952

Fireside scene, c1950. Creator: Shirley Markham
Fireside scene, c1950. Slippers warming on the hearth. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952

Sir Richard Whittington, (1897). Creator: Unknown
Sir Richard Whittington, (1897). According to legend, Dick Whittington (c1350-1423) heard the sound of Bow Bells telling him to return to London and prophesying that he would become Lord Mayor

A Wild-Beast Shop, c1873. Creator: Unknown
A Wild-Beast Shop, c1873. Shop selling animals in Ratcliff Highway, London. Exotic animals for sale include a baboon, a cockatoo (perched near a stove), and an anteater

Staircase in Southampton House, c1872. Creator: Unknown
Staircase in Southampton House, c1872. Interior of Southampton House, High Holborn, London. House where Thomas Wriothesley, the last Earl of Southampton

A Chat Round The Brasero, 1866, (c1902). Creator: Unknown
A Chat Round The Brasero, 1866, (c1902). After a painting in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London. A group of people chatting round a brazier, with a religious painting and crucifix on the wall behind

A Merry Party, 1892, (c1902). Creator: Unknown
A Merry Party, 1892, (c1902). After a painting in the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery. Kittens playing with a basket. From The Nations Pictures

Retribution, the Rats and the Cat, 1878, (1886). Engraved in wood, two blocks, from a drawing by Kiosai. Found in the collection of the British Museum

At Home, 1936. Artist: Paul Gauguin
At Home, 1936. From Paul Gauguins Intimate Journals. [Crown Publishers, New York, 1936]

Boys fishing across a canal towpath, London, c1905

A Sunday ordinary at Highgate, 1784. A waiter serving a crowd of diners at a table, spilling gravy over one of them while his attention is distracted by a woman with her child on his other side;

Sunday Morning, c1825. Artist: George Hunt
Sunday Morning, c1825. Scene inside barbers shop; a hop boy receives a haircut (left); a large man being brutally shaved bellows with rage (centre)

The man of the woods & the cat-o -mountain, 1821. A monkey with Alderman Matthew Woods head squats beside a plump cat with the head of Queen Caroline; he puts his left hand on her shoulder

A Lioness, c1867-1910. Artist: John MacAllan Swan
A Lioness, c1867-1910

Mixing a recipe for corns, 1835. Artist: George Cruikshank
Mixing a recipe for corns, 1835. A thin woman sits in a chair brewing a mixture from a recipe. The table is crowded with phials and bottles

Mackerel seller, Cries of London, 1760. Artist: Paul Sandby
Mackerel seller, 1760. A mackerel seller with a large basket, crying her wares, or possibly shouting at the person in the doorway. Her dog barks at a cat who has raised its fur

The London al - ns taste, or pretty Sally of the chop-house, 1750
The London al - ns taste, or pretty Sally of the chop-house ; a waitress hands a chop on a dish to an alderman on the left

The idle prentice returned from sea... plate VII of Industry and Idleness 1833
The idle prentice returned from sea, and in a garret with a prostitute, plate VII of Industry and Idleness, 1833; the apprentice

Southampton House, Chancery Lane, London, 1851. Artist: John Wykeham Archer
View of the staircase in Southampton House, Chancery Lane, London, 1851

Cats Meat, Cries of London, c1840. Artist: TH Jones
Cats Meat. A woman buying cats meat with a cat and three dogs, one peering into the nearby barrow. From Cries of London, c1840

A Soaker or a Real Cat and Dog Day, 1825. Artist: G Hunt
A Soaker or a Real Cat and Dog Day, 1825; shows a rainy London street. A man tries to open his umbrella and a soaked dog runs past

The industrious apprentice a favourite... plate IV of Industry and Idleness, 1747
The industrious apprentice a favourite, and entrusted by his master, plate IV of Industry and Idleness, 1747; the industrious apprentice stands with his master in the counting house

First Stage of Cruelty, plate I from The Four Stages of Cruelty, 1751. Tom Nero is torturing a dog with an arrow, whilst another young man attempts to prevent the torment, in vain

The Cat Did It, from The Greatest Plague of Life, pub. 1847 (engraving)

The Cats let out of the bag or the Rats in Dismay, 1811
The Cats let out of the bag or the Rats in Dismay, pub March 1811 (hand coloured etching). The cats and rats faces are several famous political figures

Very Unpleasant Weather or the Old Saying verified Raining Cats, Dogs and Pitchforks, 1835
Very Unpleasant Weather or the Old Saying verified Raining Cats, Dogs and Pitchforks, published by Thomas McLean, 26 Haymarket, August 1st 1835, (hand coloured engraving)

Harmony before Matrimony, 1805
Harmony before Matrimony pub Hannah Humphrey 25th October 1805. A young woman plays a harp, singing a duet with a man holding the music book, Duets de L Amour. Ovids Art of Love is on the table

Puss in Boots, c1912

Child with a cat, 1963. Artist: Michael Walters
Child with a cat, 1963. Advertising photograph for the Media Design Agency

Cats forming the caracters for Octopus, from the series Cat Homophones (Neko no Ateji), ca 1842. Private Collection

Wanting to Tweeze the Nape of the Neck. From the series Auspicious Desires on Land and Sea (Sankai medetai zue), 1852. Private Collection

Emblem from Sinn- en Minne-beelden (Sense- and Love-pictures) by Jacob Cats, 1627. Private Collection

Girl with cats in a summer landscape, 1892. Found in the Collection of UPM-Kymmenen Kulttuurisaation

Lucky Tom-Cat. Found in the Collection of State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Red Cat. Found in the Collection of Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

The Concert of Cats. Found in the Collection of Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen

Farewell to the Nineteenth Century. Design for the decoration of the Cabaret venue Le Chat Noir in M Artist: Willette
Farewell to the Nineteenth Century. Design for the decoration of the Cabaret venue Le Chat Noir in Montmartre, 1899. Private Collection

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