A Lion Resting on a Rock, George Stubbs, 1788
Lion Face, unknown British artist, 19th century
Ancient Egyptian furniture leg (faience) in the shape of a lion. Artist unknown; 4th cent. BCE (Late Period). Thought to have come from Hihya in the eastern Delta; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Lions in the Desert, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1890s
A lion. Attic black-figure amphora, attr. to the Gorgon Painter; ca. 600-575 BCE. Now in the Louvre.
Ancient Egyptian bead (silver foil over a clay-bulked resin core) in the shape of a recumbent lion. Artist unknown; 12th Dynasty, Middle Kingdom. Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Ancient Egyptian appliqué (faience with light blue glaze) in the shape of a lion’s head. Artist unknown; 380-343 BCE (30th Dynasty, Late Period). Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.
Canaanite scarab (steatite) featuring a walking lion design. Artist unknown; ca. 1648-1539 BCE (Egyptian Second Intermediate Period = late MB IIB). Now in the Walters Museum of Art.
Ancient Egyptian electrum bead in the shape of a recumbent lion. Artist unknown; ca. 1980 BCE (12th Dynasty, Middle Kingdom). Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Mosaic with apple tree, gazelles, and a lion. Unknown Arab artist; ca. 724-743 (Umayyad period). From the audience hall of the bath house at Khirbat al-Mafja, now in Jericho Governate, West Bank.