Background:

These prints are from the First Edition of Cats at School, a hard to find folio of Cats illustrated in a school setting drawn Louis Wain (1860-1839).

Wain was a very talented English artist whose primary focus was Cat art.  These prints were done when Wain was in his early 50s during his "Normal Period".

At age 57, Wain was diagnosed with schizophrenia.  His Cat illustrations after this time became more psychotic, particularly in the representation of the Cat eyes and fragmentation in the Cat's bodies.  This was known as his "Psychotic Period".