Contending Group after Nature [A Lion Fighting a Tiger and a Leopard]
1822
Sir Edwin Landseer
Artist, British, 1802 - 1873
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black and brown ink with gray and brown wash over graphite on laid paper, mounted
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 17.2 × 22.7 cm (6 3/4 × 8 15/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2021.27.1
More About this Artwork
Sir Edwin Landseer, The Connoisseurs: Portrait of the Artist with two Dogs, before Jun 1865, oil on canvas, Royal Collection Trust/© His Majesty King Charles III 2022
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist’s collection; (his sale, Christie’s London, 8 May 1874, part of no. 1014)[1]; Mrs. Mackenzie (the artist’s sister) [1809 – 1895], London; (her sale, Christie’s London, 10 December, 1895, as part of no. 115?). (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, until 1990); Private collection; (Guy Peppiatt, London); purchased by NGA, 2021
[1]Graves 1874, p. 7
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2023
Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.
Watermarks
crown