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Contending Group after Nature [A Lion Fighting a Tiger and a Leopard]
1822
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- 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.)
- Collection no.
- 2021.27.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Edwin Landseer. Contending Group after Nature [A Lion Fighting a Tiger and a Leopard]. Edwin Landseer; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of Connie Simmons and James D. Krugman. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Contending Group after Nature [A Lion Fighting a Tiger and a Leopard] — Sir Edwin Landseer. 1822.
Medium: pen and black and brown ink with gray and brown wash over graphite on laid paper, mounted.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 17.2 × 22.7 cm (6 3/4 × 8 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2021.27.1. Gift of Connie Simmons and James D. Krugman.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.