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[vera_j]

My "Paní Ježková" icon from linda_joyce  is ready, so sweet, thank you and for the instructions. Growing bolder, I tried this beautiful drawing by Václav Hollar from 17th century: The good cat . Hey - and here it is! Most my pictures are in a wrong format and the LJ machine won´t take them but I am happy enough with these!
BTW, it is only raining, the snow is melting like mad, the temperatures above zero. We could even see the sun for a moment and what a magic it does! The birds begin singing and wild ducks just wait for some free water on our pond. Soon the nights will be noisy but now I look forwart to hearing them. No way going out for a walk though, water is running in the rivulets everywhere and the remaining snow is heavy and prevents from walking. Still - I can SMELL SPRING!

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[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I googled 'Václav Hollar the good cat' and the first hit was a pdf (I looked at the cached text version instead) and found the answer.

One of the small gems of this period
is the famous etching “A good cat that
doesn’t steal titbits” (1646), probably
modelled on Hollar’s own domestic cat.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

An excellent find, yes, and it was his own cat. I replied Linda with another info about Hollar himself.