Day one hundred and thirty: Today I was cataloging prints at work, which means I get to look at amazing works on paper while I key data about them into a computer database. A sweetly sleeping cat on a pillow in the lower left corner of an intaglio print by the 16th-century artist Federico Barocci caught my eye, and I knew it would make a good subject for one of my sketches. It’s nice to know that cats haven’t changed much in over four hundred years. I had a little extra space at the bottom of my drawing, so instead of cropping it off I thought I’d add an inscription similar to those on prints of the period: Federico Barocci invented it and I made it!
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