Contending Group after Nature [A Lion Fighting a Tiger and a Leopard]
![Contending Group after Nature [A Lion Fighting a Tiger and a Leopard] by Sir Edwin Landseer](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/nga/thumb/contending-group-after-nature-a-lion-fighting-a-nga-223168.webp)
Medium
pen and black and brown ink with gray and brown wash over graphite on laid paper, mounted
Dimensions
sheet: 17.2 × 22.7 cm (6 3/4 × 8 15/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Connie Simmons and James D. Krugman
Accession Number
2021.27.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Sir Edwin Landseer
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA was born on 7 March 1802 in London, England, the son of the engraver John Landseer A.R.A. and Jane Potts. A recognized prodigy, he studied under his father and the history painter Benjamin Robert Haydon, who urged him to perform animal dissections to master musculature and skeletal structure. He trained at the Royal Academy Schools and first exhibited there in 1815 at a...