Feliformia Collection

Catopuma badia, bay cat
Felis badia. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. One of 43 hand-coloured lithographs by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) and Joseph Smit (1836-1929)

Neofelis nebulosa diardi, clouded leopard
Felis diardi. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. One of 43 hand-coloured lithographs by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) and Joseph Smit (1836-1929)

Smilodon fatalis, sabre-toothed cat
Skeleton of an extinct sabre-toothed cat which lived about 15, 000 years ago in North America. It was about the size of a present day lion

Panthera leo senegalensis, West African Lion
Plate 45 (117) Le Lion du Senegal. From Histoire Naturelle des Mammifcres, avec des figures originales, Vol. 1, 1819-42, by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Baron Georges L. C. Frederic D. Cuvier

Pterodactyl and scimitar-toothed lion 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

Prionailurus planiceps, flat-headed cat
Felis planiceps. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. One of 43 hand-coloured lithographs by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) and Joseph Smit (1836-1929)

Panthera tigris, tiger
Felis tigris. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. Illustrated with 43 hand-coloured lithographs from watercolour drawings by Joseph Wolf

Lynx sp. lynx
Stuffed specimen from the collection of the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

Prionailurus bengalensis, Leopard cat
Watercolour from John Reeves Collection; c.1820s Date: 1820

Barbary lion skull
Oldest UK skull of a North African Barbary lion, Panthera leo leo, dated to 1280-1385. The lion was part of the royal zoo in the Tower of London 700 years ago

Prionailurus bengalensis, Leopard cat
Fishing cat (Felis viverrina), c.1820. Watercolour on paper, 547 x 440 mm. From the Hardwicke Drawings Collection - Artist unknown

Odontaspis robusta, sand tiger shark teeth
Odontaspis robusta from the Early Eocene rocks of Abbey Wood, Kent. Anterior teeth (tall, slender) and lateral teeth (triangular) are shown

Egyptian mummified cat
Photograph of an Egyptian mummified cat. Over 2000 years ago, an ancient Egyptian painstakingly wrapped and embalmed this domestic cat as a religious offering to an animal-headed god

The Ambuscade
Plate 19 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated with designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874. Date: 1875

Panthera leo melanochaitus, cape Lion
This mounted skin was sent to the Museum in 1954. Shot near South Africas Orange River in about 1830, by Captain Copland-Crawford of the Royal Artillery

Naturally mummified Felis catus, cat
Dried cat found during the demolishing of property on the Duke of Bedfords estate. May 1915. The cat is thought to be approximately 300 years old and had been buried in an air-tight brick-lined cavity

Catopuma temminckii, Asian golden cat
Felis temminckii. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. One of 43 hand-coloured lithographs by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899)

Lion skull viewed from the front
Remains found in the moat of the Tower of London during the 1930s, now in the collections at the Natural History Museum

Morelia spilota, Jaguar carpet python
Morelia spilota are large snakes of the Pythonidae family

Children examining tiger, c. 1927. The Natural History Muse
This white tiger was shot in the Rewa jungle in early 1925 by the Maharajah Gulab Singh. The Maharajah presented this animal to George V, who in turn loaned the specimen to the Museum in February 1926

Nepal tiger, 1913. The Natural History Museum, London

Lions in debris, 1944. The Natural History Museum, London
The flying bomb of 11 July 1944 followed one on 5 July, and together the two did a great deal of damage, as can be seen here in the Lower Mammal Gallery

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

Felis silvestris ornata, Asian steppe wildcat
Felis ornata. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. One of 43 hand-coloured lithographs by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) and Joseph Smit (1836-1929)

Panther 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

Dasyurus viverrinus, eastern native cat or quoll
Native names Mer-re-a-gan and Din-e-gow-a. Detail from drawing 84, possibly by Thomas Watling (1762 -c. 1814), from the Thomas Watling Drawings Collection, 1788-c

Ailurus fulgens, red panda
Plate 96 from the collection of drawings of mammals and birds from Nepal, 1818-1858, by Bryan Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894)

Bechuana Hunting a Lion (Plate 35 / 36)
An illustration by Captain (later Sir) William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848), an officer in the Indian army and an acclaimed naturalist who travelled though South Africa

Plate 4 in Reliquiae Diluvianae (1823)
Compares the jaw of a modern Cape hyena (top) with the larger jaws of the extinct hyena species found at Kirkdale Cave

Felis scripta
Plate 57 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Leptailurus serval, serval
Ff. 5. Felis capensis. Painting by George Forster (1754-1794), made during Captain Cooks second voyage of discovery, 1772-1775

A puma-leopard hybrid
A hybrid of a puma and a leopard, (about 1 metre in length) on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring. Close-up of head

Aechmorhynchus cancellatus, Kiritimati sandpiper
Ff. 64, watercolour by William Ellis from a collection of sketches of Mammals, Birds and Fish made on Captian James Cooks third voyage (1776-1780)

Felis fontanierii, North China panther
Plate 30 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Dasyurus maculatus, spotted quoll

X-ray of a mummified cat
X-ray of mummified ancient Egyptian cat from Ptolemaic period, 330-30 BC. Collected by Sir Flinders Petrie. X-ray shows displaced neck (cervical) vertebrae

Panthera pardus nimr, Arabian leopard
Arabin leopards, arabia felici, Panthera pardus nimr. Plate 17 from Symbolae Physicae section: Zoologica I. Mammalia by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795-1876)

Panthera onca, jaguar
Close-up of Jaguar (Panthera onca) skin. The Jaguar is the largest of the New World Cats. It can be found in the Jungles of South and Central America

Children with Explorer Packs
Children viewing a stuffed specimen of a cheetah on display in the Mammals Gallery within the Life Galleries at the Natural History Museum, London

Panthera pardus, leopard
Partial leopard skull viewed from the right. Remains found in the moat of the Tower of London during the 1930s. Now held in the collections at the Natural History Museum, London

Lion skull with lower jaw viewed from left side
Remains found in the moat of the Tower of London during the 1930s, now in the collections at the Natural History Museum

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