#TwoForTuesday on #NationalCatDay 🐱🐱:
Norbertine Bresslern-Roth (Austrian, 1891-1978)
Two Cats, 1923
color linocut on paper, 17 x 19 cm. (6.7 x 7.5 in.)
#TwoForTuesday on #NationalCatDay 🐱🐱:
Marguerite Thompson Zorach (USA, 1887-1968)
Two Cats, n.d.
Oil on canvas, 24 x 28 in. / 61.0 x 71.1 cm
Happy #GuineaPigAppreciationDay!
#DYK Domestic guinea pigs, aka cavies (Cavia porcellus) are native to the Andes of South America but quickly found their way into Europe post-1492 and began showing up in their visual record by the mid-1500s...
#BookRecommendations for #NationalPetDay :
For when #InternationalDogDay falls on #Caturday…
“Two to one on black.” c. 1903
Publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons (English, 1886–1960)
Chromolithograph on card stock
8.9 x 14 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
#TwoForTuesday + #TerrierTuesday: 2 of the goodest boys in DC!
1 Fala (Scottish terrier, d. 1952), a favorite pet of FDR. Bronze sculpture by Neal Estern at the FDR Memorial.
2 Owney (terrier mix, d. 1897), mascot of the Railway Mail Service & USPS. Bronze sculpture by Daniel C. Brown at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum.
For #NationalPuppyDay:
Netsuke of Puppies at Play, Japan, Meiji period, late 19th century, ivory, H. 1 in. (2.5 cm) x W. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm) x D. 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.