The Sorceress by John William Waterhouse, ca. 1911Roman glass cup, found in Denmark, 3rd centuryDaniel dans la fosse aux lions (Daniel in the lions’ den) by Emile Jean Horace Vernet, 1857European wildcat illustration by Wilhelm Kuhnert from the book Wild life of the world: a descriptive survey of the geographical distribution of animals by Richard Lydekker, 1916Queen of the Night, clay relief, found in Southern Iraq, 19thC BCE – 18thC BCEPampas cat and jaguarundi from the book General and Particular Descriptions of the Vertebrated Animals: Order Carnivora by Edward Griffith, William Wood & Thomas Davison, 1821 Under the Moonlight by Tsuyoshi SuzukiExcerpts from The Book of the Animal Kingdom by William Percival Westell, 1910Frontispiece of the book The zoological gardens of Europe, their history and chief features by CVA Peel, 1903 From Brehm’s Life of Animals: Volume I – Mammalia by Alfred Edmund Brehm, Wilhelm Haacke, Eduard Pechuël-Loesche & Richard Schmidtlein with illustrations by Friedrich Specht, Wilhelm Kuhnert, Gustav Mützel, Robert Kretschmer, Wilhelm Camphausen, Ludwig Beckmann, E. Schmidt, Carl Friedrich Deicker, Paul Menerheim, etc., 1895Snow leopard by Cuthbert E. Swan from the book The Wild Beasts of the World by Frank Finn, 1909Clouded leopard by Cuthbert E. Swan from the book The Wild Beasts of the World by Frank Finn, 1909