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Painted illustration of a black cat with glowing eyes on a dark ledge above colorful brick and crumbling plaster walls.

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The Black Cat, for Edgar Allan Poe s “Selected Tales of Mystery,” 1909, John Byam Liston Shaw (1909), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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This illustration depicts a black cat with a glowing red-tinged face perched among dark, shadowed brickwork. Its painted brick courses and crumbling plaster are rendered in warm browns, reds, and ochres, with a purple form in the lower left. The work is titled The Black Cat, made for Edgar Allan Poe's Selected Tales of Mystery, and dated 1909, by John Byam Liston Shaw.

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