Possibly, the first photo of a cat in the world (1880-1890), and its author, Harry Pointer[1 ], a lover of animals and, at the same time, a new kind of art – photography.
It is also known that in 1872 he took hundreds of photos of his cats and only in 1884 published a separate photo album. It can be assumed that this picture was the most popular among others and rightfully deserved its place over the rest.
- During the 1870s, the Brighton photographer Harry Pointer (1822-1889) became well known for a series of carte de visite photographs which featured his pet cats. ↩︎
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