This page simply reformats the Flickr public Atom feed for purposes of finding inspiration through random exploration. These images are not being copied or stored in any way by this website, nor are any links to them or any metadata about them. All images are © their owners unless otherwise specified.
This site is a busybee project and is supported by the generosity of viewers like you.
Portraits with Pets: Joseph H. Davis’s 1836 gouache and watercolor portrait of James and Sarah Tuttle with their pet cat sitting under the table.
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
J.J. Audubon’s 1825 watercolor “Carolina Parakeet, Study for Havell pl. 26,” an illustration of America’s only parrot, once plentiful but extinct by 1920.
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Portraits of Pets: Print of Clyde Copson’s lithograph “Three watching fish in an aquarium” for 1938 book by Wilson Morris “A day with Bum; and, The Smart little fish.” Courtesy: The New York Public Library Rare Books Division.
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Pets in Pop Culture: 1890 game box featuring cats for “Combination Tiddledy Winks” by McLoughlin Brothers.
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Pests in the City: Nicolino Calyo’s 1840-44 watercolor and gouache “The Soap-Locks (The Bowery Boys),” showing pigs roaming through the street in the pre-sewer era.
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Pets at Work: Gifford Reynolds Beal’s 1945 oil painting “Central Park Hack” – the traditional way to enjoy the park.
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Pets in the City: John Costanza’s 2000 polychrome sculpture “The Most Incredible Dogwalker,” inspired by a Midtown dog walker whose skill he admired.
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Powerful Proto-pet: 2023 “Seneca Decorative Comb with Mirrored Deer Clan Images” Hayden Haynes (Seneca/ Haudenosaunee); made of moose antler and inspired by pre-contact designs from pottery and combs.
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Portraits with Pets: 1813 watercolor drawing “The Cottage” by Baroness Hyde de Neuville – an artist-in-exile from the French Revolution, depicting her two dogs, pet bird, and doghouse at her New Brunswick, New Jersey home.
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Pets in the City: Paul Lantz’s 1940 oil painting “Gramercy Park,” showing a dog approaching a fire hydrant outside the private fenced park.
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Pests in the City: William Rollinson’s 1796-99 ink and wash drawing “Custom House, New York City,” showing roaming dogs and horse manure removal in the streets.
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Pets in Pop Culture: Edward Penfield’s 1894 poster for “Harper’s Christmas,” illustrating that pets complete a happy home.
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Pets in the City: Two goat sculptures pull an 1865-95 children’s goat cart.
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Title of exhibition
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Creatures from the Wild Kingdom: George Whiting Flag’s 1835 portrait “Lady and Parrot,” as the sitter tames a now extinct Carolina Parakeet.
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Pets at Work: Harold Roth’s 1946 photograph “Lower East Side stable, Mangin Street” – one of the last livery stables in the neighborhood.
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Prized Pet: William Wegman’s 2002 Polaroid portrait of his dog, Batty, dressed as an usher at Broadway’s Tony Awards. Courtesy: the artist and Sperone Westwater Gallery.
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Portraits with Pets: Charles Wilson Peale’s 1773 painting “The Peale Family,” featuring his 1809 addition of the profile portrait of their dog, Argus.
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Copy of an 1893 letter from the Pullman’s Palace Car Company alerting rail employees that Miss Thursby has permission to take her pet bird with her inside rail passenger cars.
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Creatures from the Wild Kingdom: Gerardus Duyckinck’s 1730-1735 portrait “De Peyster Boy with a Deer,” incorporating an animal from the forest.
Installation view of “Pets in the City”
New York Historical
New York, New York
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025