Kit-Cat

The coffee drinkers and knee bouncers watch, their eyes darting back and forth, like a line of Kit-Cat wall clocks.

Vivian Rising Daniella Brodsky 2010

Stuart and Revett both belonged to the set of Dilettanti who, like their Kit-Cat counterparts, came from the professions; in the case of the Dilettanti, these professionals were artists who could mingle, thanks to the society, with potential and actual patrons, providing their talents and expertise in exchange for sponsorship.

A Silly, Very Cultured Club Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009

She was a favourite among the toasts of the Kit-Cat Club, and Lord Halifax, who left her a fortune, was an intimate friend.

The Journal to Stella 2003

It may be surmised that Thomas D'Urfey stood no chance of winning any of those prizes, for he was too much of a Tory to please the Kit-Cat members.

Inns and Taverns of Old London

But the Earl of Halifax and Sir Samuel Garth were the most prolific contributors to Kit-Cat literature, the former being responsible for six and the latter for seven poetical toasts.

Inns and Taverns of Old London

Kit-Cat; the Beef-Steak; the Terrible Calves Head; Johnson's club, where he had Bozzy, Goldie, Burke, and Reynolds; the Poker, where Hume,

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

Although the exact date of the establishment of the Kit-Cat club has never been decided, the consensus of opinion fixes the year somewhere about 1700.

Inns and Taverns of Old London

The dimensions of this room were responsible for the application of the term Kit-Cat to portraits of a definite size.

Inns and Taverns of Old London

Thus, on the suggestion of Tonson the portraits of the members were painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the bookseller, but as the walls of the room at Barn Elms were not lofty enough to accommodate full-lengths, the painter reverted to a canvas measuring thirty-six by twenty-eight inches, a size of portrait which preserves the name of Kit-Cat to this day.

Inns and Taverns of Old London

The former society is described with great gusto by Ned Ward, who had for it many more pleasant adjectives than he could find for the Kit-Cat Club.

Inns and Taverns of Old London