With his lioness nearby, this lion protects her from an unseen threat. This black and white image of lions is striking in its simplicity of scene yet dramatic for the positioning of the two big cats.
Friedrich Specht (1839-1909) drew this and a number of other animal illustrations for Jumbo’s Book of Natural History released in 1883.
This image is copyright free and in the public domain anywhere that extends copyrights 70 years after death or at least 120 years after publication when the original illustrator is unknown.
