courtesy rijkmuseum (PD) http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.collect.96501
For #MuseumCats day over on Twitter, I've found this engraving by Louis Bernard Coclers over at the Rijkmuseum: "Kat zit op een stoof," circa 1756-1817. This translates to "Cat sitting on a stove," which is kind of alarming till you realize it's actually a warming-pan sort of thing. So, sometime in the 18th-19th century, a Dutch cat did what cats everywhere do best: find the comfy...and hog it.
Cats will be cats, no matter the century :) Thanks for sharing this great drawing!
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