Those Lions Look More Like Dogs To Me!

Sir Edwin Landseer had to model his Trafalgar Square lions on a stinking corpse from London Zoo

John Welford

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My own photo

The lions in Trafalgar Square, London, were created by the Victorian artist Sir Edwin Landseer in 1867. There is an interesting story behind how they came to look the way they do.

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John Welford

I am a retired librarian, living in a village in Leicestershire. I write fiction and poetry, plus articles on literature, history, and much more besides.