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Lion Stalking Prey
Lion Stalking Prey

Lion Stalking Prey

Artist/Maker Richard Friese Germany, 1854 - 1918
Date1909
Mediumcolored pencil and watercolor/ mixed media
Dimensionsimage: 8 1/2 × 12 in. (21.6 × 30.5 cm) frame: 16 1/2 × 19 1/4 × 1 1/4 in. (41.9 × 48.9 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1997.044
ClassificationsPainting
Subject
Signedsigned lower right
Inscribednote in German to Dr. Hornaday, signed and dated lower right
On View
Not on view
DescriptionLion Stalking - down hill to left.Curatorial Remarks
Inscription translated by Erika Muschaweck, museum volunteer: "For Friendly Remembrance, Dedicated to Dr. Hornaday." 

Presumably given to William Temple Hornaday after Friese's visit to the United States in 1908 to go on a hunting and sketching expedition to New Brunswick with Carl Rungius.