A Sleeping Leopard
1791
- Medium
- Soft-ground etching with roulette work
- Dimensions
- 18 × 23.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-203747
A famed animal painter, George Stubbs studied anatomy and likely had access to one of London’s various menageries, where he could view animals kept as curiosities and brought to England from across the globe. Here, Stubbs used innovative printmaking techniques to capture the roughness of the tree bark, the rocky surface of the ground, and the softness of the leopard’s fur. Stubbs was one of the earliest artists to experiment with soft-ground etching, which allowed him to re-create texture by transferring his image onto a printing plate through an actual drawing.
Provenance
Wade Fund, 1980.90
Registry history
- 1791 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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