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Updated: May 25, 2025

Blyth's little unit of a contribution to the one thousand and odd works exhibited to the public, that year, by the Royal Academy. But Valentine's triumph did not end here. His picture of the treacherous cat stealing the household milk entitled, by way of appealing jocosely to the strong Protestant interest, "The Jesuit in the Family," was really sold to an Art-Union prize-holder for ten pounds.

Wilkie Collins - Hide and Seek