These are rats, actually. I think.

hautecatture:

Cat & mice, 1920

stilllifequickheart:

Walter Crane

Lion and Dove

1900

(via lemewsee)

lemewsee:

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

theladyandthecat:

Audrey Hepburn
and the Cat called Cat
1961
photographer: unknown

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.”

yourcatwasdelicious:

elizabeth taylor

Members of the Russian Women’s Battalion of Death, World War One. Source: Corbis.

You can read more about the Women’s Battalions here.

Portrait of cat with bird sitting on his head. Source: Corbis.

Small bird and kitten. Source: Corbis.

Mother cat raising hedgehog. France, 1954. Source: Past to Present.

Text attached on reverse: “Rien n’arrete l’instinct maternel … Chatons et hérisson font bon ménage”