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The result is one of the most celebrated images in the history of printmaking: a rhinoceros rendered with extraordinary confidence and detail, yet anatomically quite unlike an actual rhinoceros, with an extra horn at the shoulders, heavily plated skin suggesting armour, and a general impression of mechanical improbability that somehow manages to convey the genuine strangeness of the creature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDürer's \u003cem\u003eRhinoceros\u003c\/em\u003e was reproduced and copied for the next two centuries and became the standard European image of the animal. It is a document not only of a remarkable animal but of the limits and possibilities of knowledge transmitted at a distance — how much information can survive the chain from observation to description to drawing to woodcut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAvailable as an 11 oz white ceramic mug or a 10 oz fine porcelain mug. 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By the 1860s she had settled in Brussels with her husband and shifted her attention almost exclusively to cats — a subject she would make entirely her own. She built a specially designed glass-fronted studio that allowed her to observe her feline subjects at close quarters while they went about their lives, playing, nursing kittens, sleeping in arranged interiors. The resulting paintings combine the meticulous observation of the seventeenth-century Dutch masters with the Victorian taste for the sentimental domestic scene, producing a body of work that was enormously popular in its time and remains immediately recognisable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCat with Kittens\u003c\/em\u003e (1844), painted when Ronner was twenty-three, is an early work in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, already showing the careful attention to feline behaviour and the warm, even light of the domestic interior that would characterise her mature practice. A mother cat tends to her kittens with the concentrated absorption that Ronner observed so closely; the small figures tumble and press close, rendered with a naturalism that stops just short of sentimentality. It is a painting about watchfulness — the mother's and the painter's — executed with the patient precision that would sustain Ronner's career across seven decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAvailable as an 11 oz white ceramic mug or a 10 oz fine porcelain mug. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHenriëtte Ronner, \u003cem\u003eCat with Kittens\u003c\/em\u003e, 1844, oil on panel. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. 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