Skip to main contentDescriptionLion Stalking - down hill to left.Curatorial Remarks
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 viewInscription 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.
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.
Richard Friese
Paul Bransom