Fluffy White Cats with Portrait Miniature, Charming Old Graphite and Charcoal Drawing decorative pillow wrapped in iron wire

wrapped in iron wire

amplified (and made rather ridiculous to a modern eye) by his traditional lederhosen

evoking the sense that these five figures--especially the man at center--were plowing their way through the water

One often sees piqué work on pieces like this --decorative work made by inlaying tiny points or pins of silver

features wonderful full page caricatures of "the sovereigns" of the era by Portuguese painter and caricaturist Tomás Júlio Leal da Câmara (1876-1948)

Fluffy White Cats with Portrait Miniature, Charming Old Graphite and Charcoal Drawing decorative pillow wrapped in iron wireIt was a week for cats (which, being a childless cat lady, seems only fitting) and this is the drawing that kicked it off. About as good an embodiment of a snuggle as can be I'd say, and with the implied presence of a third party, too, represented in the portrait miniature of a woman tucked under the paw of front facing cat. (I would guess a portrait of the woman drawing the picture, who wanted to nestle herself into it and there's a nice loop formed