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Prionailurus bengalensis, Leopard catFishing cat (Felis viverrina), c.1820. Watercolour on paper, 547 x 440 mm. From the Hardwicke Drawings Collection - Artist unknown
Egyptian mummified catPhotograph 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
Naturally mummified Felis catus, catDried 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
Cat designDrawing 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 catus, catFelis domestica. 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)
ChrysoberylShown here is a crystal and a cut stone of chrysoberyl (beryllium aluminum oxide). Chrysoberl is a gemstone and is also known as cats eye
Faceted chrysoberylTwo cut stones of the gemstone chrysoberyl (beryllium aluminum oxide). This stone is also known as cats eyes
Chrysoberyl cats eyesTwo stones of Chrysoberyl (beryllium aluminum oxide), illustrating the similarity the gemstone has with a cats eye