The Persian cat
گربه ایرانیA long-haired cat that European travellers carried home from Persia in the seventeenth century, and that breeders in Britain later turned into one of the best-known cats in the world.
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The story
Persiahaus Studio drew persian cat, round and long-coated in cream, with a flat face, small ears and large copper eyes, sitting on a red cushion patterned with saffron stars, against a saffron halo on lapis, with a small grey mouse for the poem of the Mouse and the Cat.
A long-haired cat that European travellers carried home from Persia in the seventeenth century, and that breeders in Britain later turned into one of the best-known cats in the world. The full story is told in Animals of Persia.