Uncia Gallery

Snow leopard (Uncia uncia) Portrait

The Snow Leopard is a descendant of the wild cat and panther families. Native to the rugged and snowy highlands of Central Asia, the endangered snow leopard is particularly found in the Himalaya region

© Jean-Louis Klein & Marie-Luce Hubert/AUSCAPE All rights reserved

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Snow leopard or ounce, Panthera uncia. Endangered

Snow leopard or ounce, Panthera uncia (Once, Felis onca uncia). Endangered. Engraved by Thomas Landseer after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith drawn from a specimen skin in the Tower of London. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1824. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

Snow leopard, Uncia uncia or Panthera uncia Endangered

Snow leopard, Uncia uncia or Panthera uncia. Endangered. . Drawn from a living specimen in the Tower of London, and a stuffed specimen in the British Museum. Handcolored engraving on steel by William Lizars after an illustration by Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Mammals, Edinburgh, 1834

© Florilegius / Mary Evans