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Lions

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  • The god Apollo holding his bow and an arrow. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • Telephus (son of Hercules) being suckled by a doe in the temple of Athena where as an infant he was left to die. Colour photogravure after a mural at Herculaneum.
  • Durga slaying the Buffalo demon depicted on a stand and surmounted on a torana decorated with smaller figures of demon kings and Hindu gods. Transfer lithograph.
  • Narasimha disembowelling Hiranyakasipu in front of his son and attendants. Chromolithograph, 1883.
  • A man in a white bathrobe sits against the legs of a man dressed in a jacket and shirt with the head of a roaring lion to the left and the message to 'Live wild. Safe sex'; advertising the AIDS Information Line in Amsterdam. Colour lithograph by Hans Verschuuren for the Stuurgroep AIDSpreventie Homo's, 1991.

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    A dialogue between the proud horse, the tame lion, and Crab the master's cudgel, as they lay together one night in a stable near Mentz in Germany: with some historical particulars. Written by the lion himself, and printed in the Westminster Journal of Nov

    Lion

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