Detail of a ca. 1808 caricature about "Squatting plump on an unexpected cat in your chair!!", engraved by Isaac Cruikshank after a drawing by Woodward. A man unknowingly sits on a cat on a chair, setting off More
The caption reads: “Italian Nobleman of the Fifteenth Century. From a Playing-card engraved on Copper about 1460 (Cabinet des Estampes, National Library of Paris).” Project Gutenberg text 10940. — This is a fre More