Let´s talk about big cats, but also about symbolic ones. Cats, and leopards in particular, are
an important part of the iconography of Aberdeen. Just over a hundred years ago, Aberdeen’s leopards took shape in the form of what are now fondly known as “Kelly’s cats”. The architect William Kelly was commissioned to decorate the newly-widened Union Street Bridge in 1908, and he chose to do so with the leopards that I draw in 3 views on the left.
Also the version of the "coat of arms" of the city consist of three towers within a border decorated with fleur-de-lis and the supporters of the shield are two leopards. Apparently, James I of Scotland granted the (symbolic) leopards to the city of Aberdeen because the city underwrote his expenses while he was in exile in England in the early 15th century.
The local history magazine is called The Leopard, and the shopper’s creche is called “Leaping Leopards”.
Coincidentally, a cover of one of my poetry book has one of my paintings with a leopard, https://www.chiadoeditora.com/livraria/a-intensidade-do-tigre.
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