Wild cat prints
Daniel Giraud Elliot published A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats between 1878 and 1883: 43 hand-coloured lithographs of the wild cats, drawn by Joseph Wolf and Joseph Smit. The complete set in the Teylers Museum in Haarlem was scanned for these facsimiles inside the museum; each is printed at the size of the original sheet, about 19½ × 23½ in, limited to 250.
43 prints
The Lion
$225
The Jaguarundi
$225
Pallas’s Thibatan Cat
$225
Pampas Cat
$225
Felis Concolor
$225
The Tiger
$225
The Snow-Leopard
$225
The Jaguar
$225
The Panther or Leopard
$225
The Panther or Leopard
$225
The Clouded Tiger
$225
The Little Marbled Tiger
$225
Molina’s Guiana Cat
$225
The Eyra
$225
The Bornean Red Cat
$225
Temminck’s Golden Cat
$225
The little Malayan Red Cat
$225
The Ocelot
$225
The Margay
$225
Geoffroy’s Cat
$225
Bengal Leopard Cat
$225
The Fishing Cat
$225
Fontanier’s Spotted Cat
$225
The Painted Cat
$225
African Golden Cat
$225
The Serval
$225
The Bushy Tailed Red Spotted Cat
$225
The Little Red-Spotted Cat
$225
Rubiginous Cat
$225
The European Wild Cat
$225
The Caffer Cat
$225
The Desert Cat
$225
The Chaus
$225
Bokhara Chaus
$225
Shaw’s Cat
$225
The Siberian Lynx
$225
The Northern Lynx
$225
The Spanish Lynx
$225
The Lynx
$225
The Bay Lynx, or American Wild Cat
$225
The Caracal
$225
Domestic Cat
$225
Cynailurus Jubatus
$225
About wild cat prints
Elliot’s book covers the whole cat family, not only the big cats. Beside the lion, the tiger, the jaguar and the snow leopard are the ocelot, the serval, the caracal, five lynxes, the cheetah and a long run of small spotted cats from Borneo, Bengal and the pampas; plate 42 is the domestic cat.
The plates in the Teylers copy are still bound, so each sheet has a slight curve. Re-Art Special Art Productions straightened it on screen, removed the small spots of acid in the paper and the scratches from the lithographic stone, and kept the grain of the paper, the colouring and the lettering under each cat. The proofs then went up on the wall side by side, so that the lynxes match the lynxes and the lions the lions. Making a complete set: Elliot’s Family of the Cats follows every step, and all 43 plates are on A Monograph of the Felidae.