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I missed Wordless Wednesday this week, but they're assured having fun throughout at Shelley Esaak's hit pay dirt. Shelley, the Reciprocity.com Oversee to Art History, by George Caleb Bingham, with the denominate "Name That Animal" for her Wordless Wednesday trait.

Shelley initially pegged the beastlike sitting in the bow of the canoe as a cat, and (as the householder cat expert), I had to approve. After all, if it looks like a cat, walks like a cat, and talks like a cat, it have to be a CAT, right? A sum total lot of art (and animal) connoisseurs had their own opinions, for all that. One custom-made a convincing scrap that the knave was a raccoon, analysis that "coonskin caps" were truly sought-after in that era. Another made-to-order a wise pleading that it was a fox, pointing out that black fox pelts be required to from been rare, upon my word. Others hebetate out that it had to be a sustain cub, and one heroic canine fan rationality it indubitably had to be a dog.

I'll get away it to my readers to speculate, but to offer superiority to my own argument, I've posted a almost identical photograph aloft. Yes, the cat is in a bathroom go down as a substitute for of a canoe bow, but the display is uncommonly like. Register your comments or here; it makes no never-mind to me.
_{Photo Credit: © Karly Corona}

at appeared on on Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 12:40:35.

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