Elephant and Lion

Item

Title

Elephant and Lion

Description

This piece is two pages of a sketchbook. The upper page shows a female lion, lying on its stomach, eating something. The lower page shows a young elephant, reaching out with its trunk, the piece is inscribed "Banana please".

Creator

Bertha May ingle

Date

1907: This is from a trip that Bertha did with the McGillivray-Knowles studio to Quebec City in 1907. While this is not expressly a Quebec scene it is in a sketchbook filled with Quebec drawings.

Format

Pencil on paper

Source

BMIAA assets

Original Format

Drawing

Physical Dimensions

Each page is 4 x 5.5 inches