Focus on Lion Attacking a Dromedary and explain the Composition.
Lion Attacking a Dromedary is a taxidermied diorama. It appears, to the viewer, as a frozen moment in time that could be reanimated momentarily. It depicts an imagined violent scene, a North African courier on a dromedary struggling for his life. The camel is bellowing in pain as a male Barbary lion is trying to climb up it to reach the courier who is attempting to stab the lion with his knife. The body of a female lion lies in front of the camel, dead from the courier's single shot; his long gun lies across the lioness. The male figure, referred to as an Arab by Verreaux, is a fictional pastiche of five North African cultures and is based on what Verreaux thought an Arab looked like.
Barbary lion diorama taxidermied Dromedary dromedary