- Titles The Lion Grown Old (Title)
- Artist Gustave Doré, French, 1832 - 1883
- Medium pencil on paper
- Dimensions sheet: 11 3/4 × 8 3/4 in. (29.8 × 22.2 cm) image: 7 5/8 × 7 7/8 in. (19.4 × 20 cm) mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
- Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Otto Mosler Marx, 1954.59
- Work Type drawing
- Classification Drawings
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks Artist's studio stamp, recto, bottom right, in red ink: ATELIER / G vx Doré [inside oval]
- Inscription Recto, bottom center, in black ink: "The Lion grown old (La Fontaine) Verso, right center, in pencil, oriented upside down: No 81 Bottom right corner, in pencil: X
- Provenance Artist's estate [see note 1]; Henry Mosler; bequest to Mrs. Otto Mosler Marx; gift to Birmingham Museum of Art, 1954
1. Artist's estate stamp on recto, Lugt 681a