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Kalighat painting based on Bengali folklore where a cat poses as a monk on an island full of mice. The cat later proves them wrong for their initial lack of belief through saintly behavior. He then consumes the offspring of several mice after...

Bronze figure of an Egyptian cat playing with one of her kittens and feeding another, Saite 26th Dynasty period (664-525 BCE). The goddess Bastet, who had a cat’s head, was one of the many gods in the polytheistic Egyptian religion and had...

Hollow cast bronze statue depicting a seated cat wearing golden earrings, a nose ring and a silver wedjat (Eye of Horus) pectoral. Possibly from Saqqara, Egypt, c. 600 BCE. Bequest of Major Robert Gayer-Anderson, 1939. The British Museum...

Hollow-cast bronze cat, probably a votive offering to the goddess Bastet, from Tell Basta, Egypt, c. 664-30 BCE. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.

A facsimile of a painting from the Tomb of Sennedjem, in Deir el-Medina. The painting depicts a cat killing a serpent and is associated with a sequence in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The original painting was made c. 1295-1213 BCE. The...

Double-spouted vessel with a spotted cat. Mythical creatures are frequently depicted on Nazca vessels. Combinations of multiple elements result in a wide range of forms. The spotted cat figure represents the pampas cat, native to the south...

A pen and ink illustration of a cat in a tree, being harassed by a man and his dogs. Folio 48 of Ms. Ludwig XV 1 (83.MR.171), amanuscript made in Germany (probably Trier), late 15th century. Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

Reconstruction of the sabre-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis, which lived in the Americas during the Pleistocene.

An illumination from a Late Medieval manuscript made in Brittany, France c. 1430 - 1440 CE. The painting portrays a hunters and their dogs attacking a wounded wildcat which is clinging to a tree. From Ms. 27 (87.MR.34), fol. 97, in the...

An illustration of an ogre, a stock character in medieval folklore (From 'Europa's Fairy Book' by Joseph Jacobs and John Dickson Batten, 1916)