Two Scarce Folk Magic Specimens of a Mummified Cat & Mouse c.1750; 4 Henrietta Street, Dublin 1, Ireland Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews Rowland Ward

Rowland Ward

He designed the 'Plays in the Park' mural which adorned Birmingham Town Hall in the early 1940s during which time it is also believed that he served as the President of the R

opened as the Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum in January 1862

The handles are later replacements but of the period and in keeping

Two Scarce Folk Magic Specimens of a Mummified Cat & Mouse c.1750; 4 Henrietta Street, Dublin 1, Ireland Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews Rowland WardOrigin: Irish Period: George II Provenance: 4 Henrietta Street, Dublin 1, Ireland Date: c. 1750 The Cat: 14 l x 8 d x 2. 5 h The Mouse: 7. 5 l x 3 d x 0. 75 h The well preserved mummified or dried specimens of a domestic cat and field mouse, each fully intact and with some remaining teeth, whiskers and claws, having been discovered under the stairs of 4 Henrietta Street, Dublin 1, Ireland, with accompanying violin case, the wholes surviving from the