Neo-traditional tattoo of a tabby and white cat with green eyes, framed by purple scrolls and an orange wash, on the upper arm.

Tabby cat portrait with purple scrolls

Neo-trad · Upper arm · Mixed · Photo

A realistic portrait of a brown tabby and white cat with bright green eyes and a pink nose, turned slightly to the left. Fine whisker lines and soft shading show the fur texture, with white highlights in the whiskers. Purple ornamental scrolls and an orange wash frame the head against the skin, and the image is shot on a white paper towel.

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Mrs Hadley had never let anyone bring a cat into the Gull Bank boarding house, which was why Sorrel had to be smuggled up the back stairs in a laundry basket, and why she was still there in April when the lodgers changed every Saturday. Nobody had ever asked her name. The guests called her the cat, the landlady called her that animal, and the postman, who had a soft spot for anything with whiskers, called her Duchess.

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Room four had a sash window that looked straight out over the harbour wall. Each evening, when the fishing boats came in with their lamps swinging, Sorrel jumped onto the sill and sat with her tail wrapped round her feet, watching the water turn from grey to violet to black. The new lodger, a thin man called Teodor Vance who taught piano by post, had taken to leaving his door ajar so she could come and go. He talked to her while he unpacked. She tolerated it.

On the last Saturday of the month he packed early and left a note on the dresser: Thank you for the company. The room is paid until Monday. Mrs Hadley found the door open and the sill empty, and went down to the harbour with a saucer of milk she had no intention of admitting was for anyone.

Sorrel was sitting on the end of the wall, nose to the wind, green eyes fixed on the ferry lights that no longer stopped at Gull Bank. The landlady set the saucer down beside her. Neither of them moved for a long while, and when the last boat had gone round the point, the cat finally turned and followed her up the hill.

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