The Cat's Paw
After Sir Edwin Henry Landseer British
Engraver Charles George Lewis British
Publisher Graves and Warmsley British
Not on view
Inspired by a fable by Jean de la Fontaine's fable, the image shows a monkey grasping a cat and using its paw to knock roasting nuts from a hot stove, making the cat howl in pain. There are kittens in a basket on a chest behind. Based on a painting exhibited at the British Institution in 1824.
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