Art, literature & history
A lion, dragon and fox fighting each other, an inscribed banderole above, an oval composition
ca. 1515–27
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- Sheet (Trimmed to image): 4 3/16 × 6 1/4 in. (10.7 × 15.9 cm)
- Collection no.
- 51.501.638
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Marco Dente. A lion, dragon and fox fighting each other, an inscribed banderole above, an oval composition. Marco Dente; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
A lion, dragon and fox fighting each other, an inscribed banderole above, an oval composition — Marco Dente. ca. 1515–27.
Medium: Engraving. Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed to image): 4 3/16 × 6 1/4 in. (10.7 × 15.9 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.