lemewsee:

Eugène Delacroix, Royal Tiger, ca. 1829, Lithograph: crayon, brush, and scraping, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Celtic Tiger? by National Library of Ireland on The Commons on Flickr.

Fierce looking tiger in a cage in Dublin Zoo. Showing how photography captures one moment in time, we also have a photo of him(?) taken a couple of minutes before or after, where he just looks like a big pussy cat…

Date: March 1936

Just a pussy cat by National Library of Ireland on The Commons on Flickr.

Accompanying this gorgeous lion cub is Mr Flood, who worked at Dublin Zoo for many years.

Date: Circa 1936

stilllifequickheart:

Walter Crane

Lion and Dove

1900

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Tippi Hedren at Shambala Preserve. Photograph by Christian Simonpietri, December 1972. Source: Corbis.

Actress Tippi Hedren watches a tiger jump through the kitchen window of her home on the Shambala Preserve she founded and manages.

oldbookillustrations:

Canadian Lynx (Lynx canadensis)

From the Trousset encyclopedia, Paris, 1886 - 1891.

(Source: oldbookillustrations.com)

oldbookillustrations:

Baboo’s good tiger.

Henry Sandham, frontispiece from Tales of the Malayan coast, by Rounsevelle Wildman, Boston, circa 1899.

(Source: archive.org)

vintagegal:

Natalie Wood photographed by Ralph Crane, 1957

brazenswing:

Paul Friedrich Meyerheim: Löwen, 1885.

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Joseph Scherschel, Living Room Lion, Graham, Texas, 1955. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

Blondie, the pet lion, happily being petted by her neighbor friend Jane Johnson (R), 11, as other kids look on, in the back of Charles Hipp’s station wagon, parked in front of his house.