Cats of the V&A: 50 Postcards

A set of fifty beguiling, funny, and artistic feline postcards selected from the incomparable collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Bringing together fifty of the V&A’s most adorable, stylish, and charming cats, this boxed postcard set features a wide range of art styles, from the Edwardian eccentricity of Louis William Wain to the whimsy of early Victorian Christmas cards, and from the fish-stealing strays of sixteenth-century genre painting to the sophisticated felines of 1920s Paris.

Included are artists from all over the world using many different mediums, including:

• A tantalizing photograph by A.W. Turner from the 1860s
• The famous Tournée du Chat Noir lithograph poster from 1896
• A unique Chinese painting of a cat waiting in ambush by Ji Biao from 1819
• A charming domestic scene in woodcut by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro from 1919
• A playful watercolor by an unknown, likely Mughal, artist from 1740
• Pencil sketch studies by Helen Allingham from the early 20th century
• And many more.