Louis Wain Fact #57:
As Wain’s reputation as the Victorian “cat person” grew, he started to become inundated with stray cats and unwanted kittens placed into his care. He apparently had “so many cats that their kittens left the house and took up residence in the garden, becoming quite wild and snarling and spitting at visitors who walked up the path.”
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33. THE FORTY THIEVES
Watercolour and bodycolour
15 1/4" x 11 1/4"
Illustrated: 'With Louis Wain to Fairyland', published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd 1889