Fierce Looking Lion! Large Late 19th Century Ink Drawing in Period Frame straw stuffed animal but still holding on to

but still holding on to much of its original paint

which from what I've found was active in the 1870s

and not a fussy thing about it

published by W F Jackson & Sons of Salford Manchester in the late 30s/early 40s

Fierce Looking Lion! Large Late 19th Century Ink Drawing in Period Frame straw stuffed animal but still holding on toAs with so many Victorian era drawings, this large pen and ink drawing of a lion was based on a published one with a little searching I identified the source, which appeared in "Real Pen Work: Self instruction in Penmanship, published in 1882. (Included as last photo.) The published one made use of Spencerian calligraphic flourishes for the fur of the lion but whoever created this drawing did their own thing, discarding the curlicues in favor of more