FUR: a curious illustraton from "The Courageous Catamount"

[Kupok]

This Horace Wackenbush illustration from the 1917 children's book The
Courageous Catamount by Giles Smethington has art historians puzzled.
The title character, a tea-sipping poetry-composing mountain lion, must
reach into his primal past and find the fortitude to help a knight slay
a menacing dragon. The Catamount's resemblance to a 1960s animated big
cat is uncanny . . . and vividly illustrates what can happen when the
wrong people get their hands on some clipart and GIMP.
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This is silly! :o

But hay, The blending in is kinda well done.

[M. Mitchell Marmel]

This Horace Wackenbush illustration from the 1917 children's book The
Courageous Catamount by Giles Smethington has art historians puzzled.
The title character, a tea-sipping poetry-composing mountain lion, must
reach into his primal past and find the fortitude to help a knight slay
a menacing dragon. The Catamount's resemblance to a 1960s animated big
cat is uncanny . . . and vividly illustrates what can happen when the
wrong people get their hands on some clipart and GIMP.

(laughs)

-MMM-