tail puller by the ghost of me on Flickr.

Postcard from 1905.

Alternate title: “How Not to Hold Cats.”

nypl:

In honor of the first Caturday in May, here’s a lithograph by Edward Penfield that features two kitties. That should doubly satisfy your cat cravings! The lithograph was created sometime in the late 1800s or early 1900s, and currently sits in the Library’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs (which just recently launched its own catalog; we highly recommend you browse). Happy Caturday!

lemewsee:

Chi Rho Iota page, from Book of Matthew (1:18), from the Book of Kells, ca. 800 CE, Ink and pigments on vellum, Trinity College Library, Dublin

cavetocanvas:

Will Barnet, The Bannister, 1981

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lemewsee:

Eugène Delacroix, Royal Tiger, ca. 1829, Lithograph: crayon, brush, and scraping, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

cavetocanvas:

Will Barnet, Woman and Cats, 1962

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stilllifequickheart:

Walter Crane

Lion and Dove

1900

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lemewsee:

Abraham Teniers, Barber Shop with Monkeys and Cats, ca. 1629-1670, Oil on canvas

Is “pang” Dutch for “bang”? 

Pang, pang, pang! by the ghost of me on Flickr.

Illustration in the book ‘Miauwke’ (1924) by David Tomkins.

lemewsee:

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Des chats: images sans paroles (Cats: Pictures without Words), ca. 1898, Photorelief Etchings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

From the book, The Cat and the Human Imagination: Feline Images from Bast to Garfield by Katherine M. Rogers:

“Through his career, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen portrayed cats in every mood and situation. Although he could draw comic cartoon cats (as in The Horrible End of a Goldfish, 1884) or eerily impressive ones (such as the demonic black tomcat that advertises an avant-garde revue), most of his cats are privileged pets in comfortable domestic settings. Some spread themselves out on cushions, monumentally calm and supremely self-possessed; others exert every muscle to express their importunate demands for food or petting. But even when they are avidly eyeing a bowl of milk held by Steinlen’s small daughter, Colette, there is no hint of menace: the child is comfortable and the well-fed cats appear as confident friends rather than predators ready to seize what they want.”