Chris Beetles Gallery

Much in Little

Louis Wain (1860-1939)

Price

£4,500

Signed

Signed and inscribed with poem
Inscribed with title and 'verse to present either side of drawing' below mount

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

17 ¾ x 14 inches

Illustrated

Louis Wain's Annual, 1905, page 111

Exhibited

Louis Wain and the Summer Cat Show', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, 18 August-7 September 2001, no 23 ;
'Wain's World', Museum of St Albans, 26 January-6 May 2002;
'Louis Wain & the Summer Cat Show', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, 1-15 August 2026

There's nothing in the world
So artful as a mouse,
Because he bides his time
Till he can rouse the house.

He'll rush between the wainscot –
The good man hears a ghost;
The wife discusses a brimstone smell
And the baby's cry is a host.

The servants cluster in a group
To shrieking are beguiled;
The Babby springs his rattle hard,
Till the neighbourhood is wild.

The man lets in his neighbour's cat,
The mouse is on the skip;
Then sleep reigns o'er the house again;
E'en Bobby got his tip.

Framed