Civet Collection

Cat / African Civet 1860
The African civet (civettictis civetta)

Bewick / Wombat
(Vombatus ursinus) A bear-like marsupial who lives in Australia and burrows extensive tunnels. Date: 1790

All the animals whose pelts were favoured by the fashion industry in 1908. 1. American Wolf, 2. Brown Bear, 3. Skunk, 4. Canadian Wolf, 5. Coyote, 6. Grey Squirrel, 7. Common Squirrel, 8

Map of the World, 1829. Copperplate drawn and engraved by Alex Findlay from William Smellies translation of Count Georges Buffons History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Thomas Kelly, London, 1829

Head of a young antelope and wild civet of French Guiana. Le tete d un bouc bigarre, une civette sauvage a museau pointu. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration from nature by

Banded palm civet cat, Hemigalus derbyanus. Threatened
Banded palm civet cat, Hemigalus derbyanus (Hemigalea zebra). Threatened. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from William Jardines Naturalists

Meerkat, mongoose, kusimanse and palm civet
Meerkat, Suricata suricatta 1, Indian grey mongoose, Herpestes edwardsii 2, common kusimanse, Crossarchus obscurus 3, and Asian palm civet, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus 4

Golden and asian palm civets
Golden palm civet, Paradoxurus zeylonensis 1 and Asian palm civet, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus 2. Paradoxures. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard

Asian palm civet, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus
Asian palm civet or toddy cat, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus (Pougoune, Paradoxurus tipus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Basire from Edward Griffiths The Animal Kingdom by the Baron

Aardwolf, Proteles cristata (Hyaena civet, Viverra hyenoides). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Landseer after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Edward Griffiths The Animal

Large Indian civet, Viverra zibetha. Near threatened. (Civet, Viverra civetta). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Basire from Edward Griffiths The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier

African civet, Civettictis civetta (Civet, Viverra civetta). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Basire from Edward Griffiths The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1825

Masked palm civet or gem-faced civet, Paguma larvata (Masked glutton, Gulo larvatus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Bradley after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from a specimen in

Malagasy civet, Fossa fossana
Malagasy or striped civet, Fossa fossana. (Fossane, Viverra fossa.) Near threatened. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Peter Brown from his New Illustrations of Zoology, B. White, London, 1776

Asian palm civet and African civet
Asian palm civet, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus 1 and African civet, Civettictis civetta 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Asian palm civet, greater grison, and Sunda stink badger
Asian palm civet, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus 1, greater grison, Galictis vittata 2, and Sunda stink badger, Mydaus javanensis 3

Cheapside, London - including 65 Cheapside at the Civet, Cat & Rose and Rigge Perfumery and Cutlery shop. Date: 1838

Dick Whittington and his CIV et Cat, a pantomime

Civet cat, Civetticus civetta.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Ebenezer Siblys Universal System of Natural History, 1794

European badger, Meles meles, and civet, Civettictis civetta.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris, France, 1816

Kubsang (Lydekker)
(prionodon pardicolor) This beautiful creature is probably the Oriental Linsang, which lives in south-east Asia : it is related to the Civet. Date: 1893

Ibis, monkey, common genet and crow design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Genet a balais, yellow broom
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Viverra sp. civet
This civet specimen was obtained in 1867, and held at The Natural History Museum, London

Cynogale lowei, lowes otter civet. Type specimen skin, NM number 27.12.1.93

Patou cape and skirt suit, 1954
A striking outfit by Jean Patou of a swaggering civet lined cape topping a narrow skirted suit

CIVET
VIVERRA CIVETTA lives in various regions, especially central Africa : it secretes a musky substance prized by perfumiers. (It is not a cat, though sometimes called one.)

Various stoats and weasels
Six types of carnivore: Indian Civet, Egyptian Mongoose, Asian Mongoose, Pine Marten, European Marten, and Polecat

Genet (Bewick)
Viverra genetta. This is a kind of civet-cat found in the south of France, though I have yet to see one there

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