William Huggins, British 1820-1884- A lion and lioness; pencil and coloured chalks on paper, signed (lower right), 32.5 x 47.7 cm. Note: Huggins often visited both George Wombwell's Travelling Menagerie and Liverpool's zoo to sketch exotic animals from life. The depiction of lions was a theme the artist returned to often over the course of his career, and the present work is in keeping with a number of his sketches taken in the 1880s (see, for example, , London, 14 July 2021, lot 15).Please refer to department for condition report