# A Tigress with her Cubs Threatened by a Crocodile

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## Artwork

- Artist: [HAMILTON, John](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hamilton-john-r1915d8cff5c906>)
- Date: 1751-1800
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 123 x 169 cm

## Commentary

The painting is signed and dated: J. B. A. George de Hamilton Pinx 1753. This signature suggests an attribution to John Hamilton, an artist active in Vienna in the mid-18th century. This canvas is one from a pair, entitled A Lion and a Tiger, and A Tigress with her Cubs Threatened by a Crocodile. The designs in these two paintings relate to a pair of paintings, possibly pendants, executed by Peter Paul Rubens in circa 1615. The tigress with her cubs in the present canvas derive from a detail of &lt;a onclick=&#34;return OpenOther\(&#39;/html/r/rubens/30allego/03allego.html&#39;\)&#34; href=&#34;/html/r/rubens/30allego/03allego.html&#34;&gt;Rubens&#39;s Four Continents&lt;/a&gt; \(Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna\).

## Related artworks

- [A Lion and a Tiger](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hamilton-john-r1915d8cff5c906/a-lion-and-a-tiger-rabbbc5d4b7c868>)

## Attribution

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