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Jacob de Gheyn II

The Great Lion

1590
engraving

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

In preparation for creating this engraving, the artist observed and sketched an actual lion, likely one brought to the Netherlands by the Dutch East India Company and exhibited in a menagerie or zoo in The Hague.

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