Gipsies shewing a Prize Cat Two gipsies show a couple a giant cat. On the left stands a gipsy smoking a pipe. To the right of the cat is another, pointing to the cat with a stick, He announces: "Ladies and gentlemen, please to observe - The King of the Gipsies, having taken it into his Royal consideration the improvement of the race of Cats (being considered as a great dainty amongst his numerous and Loyal Subjects) He and eleven more of his Courtiers formed themselves into a Caticultural Society for that purpose. This beautiful animal, Ladies and Gentlemen is the finest produced this season - it was entirely fed on Rat Cakes and is the sole property of Mother Hubbard, for which she received the reward of the Society. Viz. Two fat capons and a Sack of Wheat, Stolen from Farmer Wilkinsons Barn." The anxious-looking woman remarks: "How grim he looks about the eyes", and her husband, a fat 'cit', adds: "It is certainly too fat to be wholesome." In the background a gipsy woman sits on the floor, next to a pot hanging over a fire. [c. 1800-1820]