first catch your hare
Etymology
Supposedly from an error in The Art of Cookery by Hannah Glasse, where "catch" should have read "case" (i.e. remove the skin); however, this is apocryphal.
Proverb
Make sure you have a thing before you decide what to do with it.
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...