All Resolutions
Artist
- Name:
- Grandville, J.-J.
- Dates:
- 1803-1847
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Animals, Humor
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Robarts Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Vie privée et publique des animaux
- Author(s):
- Collective work
- Publisher:
- Paris: Hetzel, 1867
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
A sharply dressed and styled lion-headed figure carries a stick under his arm and smokes a cigar.
Around the year 1840, lion and lionne were the names given to fashionable young people, free in their behavior, not averse to some degree of eccentricity, and spending money liberally.
The caption reads in the original French: Un lion de Paris.
Keywords: 1860s, 19th century, anthropomorphous, black & white, clothing, hat, lion