The Ricky Jay Collection

The Ricky Jay Collection

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(Cats, Learned) | Coffee-roasting cats!

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October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

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400 - 600 USD

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(Cats, Learned)

The Greatest Wonder in England is The Learned Cats! These representations will take place At Signor Cappelli's… London: J.W. Peele, [1829]


Broadside (250 x 160 mm). Numerous texts, woodcut vignette of a cat drawing water from a well; minor creasing, marginal soiling. Mounted, framed, and glazed; not examined out of frame.  


"The exhibition of 'The Greatest Wonder in England' featured stunts not usually numbered among the repertoire of performing animals, let alone feline actors: turning a spit, striking an anvil, roasting coffee, and initiating the movement of a machine that would grind rice. The dramatis personae were elsewhere described as a mother, two sons, a daughter, and the star of the troupe…who fetched a pail of water from a well" (Jay, EE 88).  


REFERENCE:

Jay, Exemplars 265; Jay, EE 88-89

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