John Summerson, Letter from the Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum, with illustration of museum cat, date unknown. Pen and ink on letterhead, 204 × 216 mm. DMC 2151.
The cat was called ‘Puss’. Anthony Vidler recalls that it ‘was fierce, and farted underneath the desk’.
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