Fluffy White Cats with Portrait Miniature, Charming Old Graphite and Charcoal Drawing decorative pillow 5" x 6 7/8" and

5" x 6 7/8" and in excellent antique condition

and I have done a bit of repair to the top side seams

clearly the watercolors portray proposed costumes for members of the Brown family in a play--though what play I am not sure

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

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 5" x 6 7/8" andIt 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