Someone requested a post of all of the current Strong Female Characters, so here you go.
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One of several beautiful studies of Native American artifacts by painter and illustrator Allen Tupper True. According to the note at the top of the page, this one depicts Crow war shields.
Sketches of Native American artifacts, 194-?. Allen Tupper True and True family papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
George Stubbs, Lion and Lioness, 1771
From the Boston Museum of Fine Arts:
Stubbs began his career as a portraitist and an anatomical illustrator, becoming widely renowned with the publication of The Anatomy of the Horse (1766). His aptitude for rendering the physical structure of animals is evident in the muscular haunches of this lioness. Natural phenomena were both an object of study and a source of awe for eighteenth-century artists and scientists, who endeavored to describe the natural world, master its complexity, and convey its sublime power. By manipulating setting, light, and color, Stubbs gives his realistic representation of the lions, plants, and trees an eerie and fantastic quality.
- Ivan Aivazovsky, 1879
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George Stubbs, Bird, c. 1800
George Stubbs, Yak, 1791
