Vintage Victorian African and Asiatic Lions 1880 Wood Print

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This is an antique Victorian era chromolithograph naturalist zoology print illustration of a majestic wild African Lion and an Asiatic Lion, both in their natural habitat as described by and published by Henry Johnson in 1880.
This print was produced over 120 years ago so large reproductions of it might show some antique imperfections such as tiny white spots reflecting the quality of affordable mass produced book illustrations of the period.
The lion is a large cat of the genus Panthera native to Africa and India. It has a muscular, deep-chested body, short, rounded head, round ears, and a hairy tuft at the end of its tail. It is sexually dimorphic; adult male lions are larger than females and have a prominent mane.
The African lion is a population of the lion in Africa. It may refer to the: Barbary lion * Central African lion * East African lion * Southern African lion ** Cape lion * West African lion.
The Asiatic lion is a Panthera leo leo population surviving today only...

I have been a visual artist since the 1960s. I'm originally from Orange County, New York, located in the Metro New York City region where I was raised on the working dairy farm [Ogden Farm] which my family founded in 1832. As a young man I spent many long hours working in gardens, crop fields, pastures and in barns with livestock. I grew up surrounded by antiques. I graduated from Bucknell University where I majored in art which included a semester in Florence studying Italian Renaissance art. After Bucknell I studied at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. I have lived throughout the U.S. [including three years in Sante Fe, New Mexico], in the Caribbean and in Mexico and Central America. I now reside in the 19th century...