Title

'The Lion of the Season', 1861. Artist: John Leech

Caption

'The Lion of the Season', 1861. Cartoon from Punch, London, 25 May 1861, when controversy over Darwin's Origin of Species was raging.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1861

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B63_223

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

31,3Mb (2,5Mb) / 9,5in x 12,8in / 2850 x 3842 (300dpi)

Keywords

animal people male man men lion science evolution guy British gorilla ape Victorian century Britain biology concept genetics controversy B&W cartoon MONOCHROME 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century Oxford Science Archive satire engraving Charles Darwin Darwin Charles Robert John Leech Leech John Charles Darwin engraving satire