File:Manx and angora cats (stylized) 1885.jpg

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English: Heavily stylized depiction of a Manx cat and an Turkish Angora (mis-called an "Angola cat" in this old source), from a hand-coloured antique engraving. Original is 5.25 x 4 inches.
Date (reprint, from 1853 original)
Source Our Living World: An Artistic Edition of the Rev. J.G. Wood's Natural History of Animate Creation – Mammalia Vol. 1, John George Wood, p. 163, published 1885, in this hand-colored version, by Selmer Hess. Originally published in black-and-white in Wood's Illustrated Natural History, Volume I: Mammalia, p. 203, by Routledge, Warne & Routledge, London, 1853.
Author Original art by unknown illustrator (engraving credits were given as "by Wolf, Zwecker, Weir, Coleman, etc. etc., engraving by the Brothers Dalziel"); scan uploaded by SMcCandlish (talk · contribs)
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Other versions File:Manx_cat_(stylized)_1885.jpg (Manx detail); File:Angora_cat_(stylized)_1885.jpg (Angora detail); File:Angora Cat.JPG (a derivative but considerably more realistic ink drawing of an Angora fromThe Cat by Rush Shippen Huidekoper, 1895)

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current02:30, 20 September 2011Thumbnail for version as of 02:30, 20 September 20112,467 × 3,056 (2.91 MB)SMcCandlish (talk | contribs)Vastly better scan, from the genuine, hand-colored original print from ''Mammalia Vol. I'', p. 163.jpg.
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