Art, literature & history
Orlando Rescuing Oliver from the Lion
1789
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brown wash over graphite on laid paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 45.6 x 55.4 cm (17 15/16 x 21 13/16 in.) overall (mat size): 66 x 86.4 cm (26 x 34 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1990.10.7
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Raphael Lamar West. Orlando Rescuing Oliver from the Lion. Raphael Lamar West; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raphael_Lamar_West,_Orlando_Rescuing_Oliver_from_the_Lion,_1789,_NGA_71380.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Orlando Rescuing Oliver from the Lion — Raphael Lamar West. 1789.
Medium: pen and brown ink and brown wash over graphite on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): Overall: 45.6 x 55.4 cm (17 15/16 x 21 13/16 in.) overall (mat size): 66 x 86.4 cm (26 x 34 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1990.10.7. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
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.