# Lion Defending its Prey

- By: Sir Edwin Landseer (British, 1802 - 1873)
- Date: c. 1840
- Medium: oil on paper on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: overall: 25.1 x 32.4 cm (9 7/8 x 12 3/4 in.) ; framed: 42.6 x 54.9 x 4.8 cm (16 3/4 x 21 5/8 x 1 7/8 in.)
- Culture: British
- Credit line: Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.130892.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/nga/a26fedd2-10bf-4aab-b46f-98a3f4bb69db/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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