The panther of antiquity, legendary creature. Based on a stuffed specimen in Hesse Cassel museum described by Charles Hamilton Smith. Handcoloured steel engraving by Joseph Kidd after an illustration by Alexander Forbes from William Rhind’s The Miscellany of Natural History: Feline Species, edited by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Fraser & Co., Edinburgh, Scotland, 1834.

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