“The Gazelle Calf” - D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

The gazelle calf, O my children, goes behind its mother across the desert, goes behind its mother on blithe bare foot requiring no shoes, O my children!

A Gazelle in Profile, Moving Toward the Right, unknown artist, early 15th century

Mosaic with apple tree, gazelles, and a lion.  Unknown Arab artist; ca. 724-743 (Umayyad period).  From the audience hall of the bath house at Khirbat al-Mafja, now in Jericho Governate, West Bank.

A leopard pursues a gazelle.  Mosaic from a late Roman villa at Homs (ancient Emesa), Syria, artist unknown; ca. 450 CE.  Now in the Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin.  

Detail from an ancient Egyptian papyrus, depicting a lion playing the board game of senet against a gazelle.  The scene is one of multiple satiric vignettes of animals behaving like humans.  Artist unknown; ca. 1250-1150 BCE (19th Dynasty, New Kingdom).  Now in the British Museum.

Ancient Egyptian wooden kohl spoon in the shape of a gazelle; artist and date unknown.  Now in the Louvre.  Photo credit: Rama/Wikimedia Commons.