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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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3 comments:
Hi, Pied Piper of Cats takes one to the Royal Academy’s Chronicle in Head Shots for 1802. Which is an interesting year - Duke of Cumberland, heroic portraiture vs the depiction of real war injuries, and Mme Tussaud’s waxworks as depiction of crime - don’t get me wrong... but it is not a 1909 Pied Piper of Cats.
I too would like to know about the Pied Piper of Cats. Hope to see the link fixed when you get the chance! :-) Thanks for putting all this together, even though your schedules are tight.
My apologies! The link to the Pied Piper of Cats is now fixed - here it is, too:
https://blog.newspapers.com/the-pied-piper-of-cats/
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