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Description: | The lioness on a rock snarls as she looks down on a procession of hunters on elephants on the left of the scene. She holds her right paw at an odd angle, and may be already wounded. John Frederick Lewis probably studied the animal in London Zoo, as he never visited Africa. Unusual scenes from other parts of the world were very popular in the Victorian period. Lewis first studied with the animal painter Edwin Landseer, and animal subjects were one of his specialities in the early part of his career. | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Temporal: | Production date: 1824 to 1827 | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Creator: | John Frederick Lewis (RA) | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/artonline/se... | Go to resource |
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