A tiger, Panthera tigris, frightened away by an English woman waving an umbrella. The English colonial family are resting under a tree near a river in Bengal, India, circa 1800. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.

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