Kathleen Walker-Meikle 🎗️さんのイラストまとめ

@GoingMedieval Arghhh, not the completely wrong cats and witches thing again! I must have imagined writing these books about pet cats in the Middle Ages.....hugely popular at the time

A cheerful image of Death greeting a Pope, king and knight for your Sunday! (British Library Ms Sloane 39 f. 32r)

@HannahPalsa The association of dachshunds with imperial Germany in American WWI posters...

@medieval_dogs On the whole, medieval and early modern monkey and cat imagery usually depicts the monkey as being rather mean to the cat (such as in the chestnuts in the fire story) but sometimes they are allies.... (British Library, Add 18852 f. 108v) #Caturday

@mcribbHistory Vernet's Dog of the Regiment Wounded, now in the Wallace collection. And "Poodles of the Napoleonic Wars" is one my special subjects....

@CAPittard @greg_jenner Laughs as as a medievalist who has written volumes on....pet cats...

#NationalBadgerDay These clever badgers (in @bodleianlibs Ms 764 f. 50v, 13th c.) are digging a set according to bestiary lore: one lies at the bottom with a stick in its mouth, the others pile dirt on it, and then pull up the stick, removing the dirt! #BadgersWorkingTogether

Canine music critic really does not like the sound of that trumpet! (@walters_museum Ms W.82, f. 42r) #MakeItStop

A very naughty tabby cat in the corner of Hogarth's 1742 painting of the four Graham children (@NationalGallery), who assume caged bird is chirping due to bird-organ (used to teach caged birds to sign) that the child plays, rather than bright-eyed feline fiend #NationalTabbyDay

For #WorldTapirDay here's a 1702 London broadsheet advertising the exhibition of two South American tapirs (called kamas) from Berbice, Guyana (British Museum no. 1914,0520.691)