Louis Wain Fact #17:
In the 1910s, Wain and his family were struggling immensely due to a number of issues, such as copyright and paper shortages from the war, which led to a lack of demand for his work. Louis Wain had reportedly paid shopkeepers for their wares with his drawings. A fair trade, as nowadays simple sketches of his can go for hundreds of pounds.
![A typical Wain sketch](https://catland.distin.org/imagehosting/image8.png)
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49. THE TEA HOUSE
Watercolour and bodycolour on tinted paper
14 1/2" x 21 3/4"
(This piece was previously titled on this site as "Inspired by the Japan-British Exhibition, 1910")