Walking Tiger

modeled ca. 1841; first issued 1844

10.2 cm 21.6 cm

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This striding cat was described as follows in the catalogue of Besse et Cie in 1844:Here is the development of muscular force, and the absence of passion; it is the animal in all the beauty of its form, in its appealing nobility; it is a tiger, it is a lion, it is a fact of na...

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William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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