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Tiger, Panthera tigris L. 1/12 natural size
Credit: Gustav Mützel

This illustration of the Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) was featured in Brehms Tierleben (Brehm's Life of Animals), a reference book by Alfred Edmund Brehm first published in the 1860s. The drawing was done by Gustav Mützel, a German artist famous for his animal paintings.