Cats all sleek and fat and complacently blinking as if they had fed on strange meats

Cats all sleek and fat and complacently blinking as if they had fed on strange meats

Photograph

Alvin Langdon Coburn

Maker
British, b. United States, 1882–1966

Cats all sleek and fat and complacently blinking as if they had fed on strange meats

Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh, Picturesque Notes: with 23 plates by Alvin Langdon Coburn. London: Rupert-Hart, Davis, 1954, pl. 13


ca. 1905
Gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1950
Image: 11 3/16 × 9 1/8 in. (28.4 × 23.2 cm)
Mount: 12 5/8 × 10 1/16 in. (32 × 25.5 cm)
Mount: 21 3/4 × 15 1/2 in. (55.3 × 39.3 cm)
Bequest of the photographer
1967.0143.0032
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on mount recto, BR: 13 [circled]
Inscribed in pencil on mount verso, BRC: 13 16. [16 strikethrough] "Cats all sleek and fat and \ complacently blinking as if \ they had fed on strange meats."

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