The Cid and the Lion. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The Cid and the Lion.
Subject: Cowardice; Courage; Miracles
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain
Description: The Cid stands in front of an escaped lion, which has just broken into a room in which he was sleeping. His nephew Don Bermudo and his two sons-in-law were also in there. Bermudo was willing to fight the lion, while the sons-in-law hid, but rather than attack the lion kneeled at the feet of the Cid, apparently miraculously. Though the Cid forgave his sons-in-law for their cowardice, they resented him for it.
Image Creator: John Jackson (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Wood engraving
Identifier: mta:11827
Language: eng
Source Name: The Cid: A Short Chronicle, Founded on the Early Poetry of Spain
Parent Collection: 1845 London Dennis Chronicle from Poem; 1845 London Dennis Chronicle from Poem
Image: mta_11827_OBJ.png
Collection: El Cid
Subject: Cowardice; Courage; Miracles