To the right of a round dining table is seated a woman with the head of Cecilia Johnston and the body of a cat. She is saying grace, joined by two cats who sit on the table in prayerful attitudes. A mandolin and musical score lie on the floor
Alternative Title:
Old cat and her favourites going to dinner
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed with plate mark., and Print has been attributed to Gillray by Draper Hill, Jr.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1st, 1782 by I. Langham, St. Bride's Passage, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817.
Subject (Topic):
Musicians, Prayer, Cats, Dining tables, and Mandolins
Title from contemporary annotation on Lewis Walpole Library impression: Sitter identified as "Ldy. Cecilia Johnstone" in mss. inscription on verso. and Printmaker, title, and imprint from later statet. Cf. No. 5748 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
"Half length sketch portrait of a thin and elderly lady in profile to the left. Her hair is dressed high and decorated with feathers and lace."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 18, 1780, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 New Bond Street
