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.
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
Leaf 26. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of a luxuriously furnished room, across one corner of which is a large folding screen. Behind the screen (left) a man stands on a chair looking over it, while a footman in livery crouches beside him looking round it at a pair of lovers: ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Rowlandson, Strand, Feby. 1792, & S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly [i.e. Field & Tuer]
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Screens, Servants, Couples, Military officers, Fireplaces, Sconces, Mandolins, Clocks & watches, and Adultery
