‘As an image of victimhood, Cat in a Crate beats many a crucifixion’
Lucy Ellmann is troubled by an eerily realistic 19th-century painting of a cat behind bars
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Lucy Ellmann is troubled by an eerily realistic 19th-century painting of a cat behind bars
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