Black Tom was one of the Brontë family's many pets. According to Ellen Nussey, lifelong friend of Charlotte Brontë and a frequent visitor to Haworth Parsonage, the Brontë home, Tom was 'everybody's favourite'.
She wrote that he 'received such gentle treatment he seemed to have lost a cat's nature, and subsidede into luxurious amiability and contentment'.
So here he is, sprawling luxuriously, as only a cat can, over the sisters' manuscripts and correspondence on the dining table where they wrote their novels
Measurements: 30 x 21cm approx.