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Silent Watchers
Silent Watchers

Silent Watchers

Artist/Maker Arthur Wardle United Kingdom, 1864 - 1949
Date1928
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 34 × 50 in. (86.4 × 127 cm) frame: 43 × 59 in. (109.2 × 149.9 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW2003.064
ClassificationsPainting
Subject
Signedsigned
InscribedTyped label on crossbar-- 'Silent Watchers by Arthur Wardle Exhibited at Royal Academy of 1928, and purchased from the artist, May, 1928, No. 455'
On View
Not on view
DescriptionTwo lions look out over the desert to a distant fire. Possibly the same painting exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1928.