The following are exerts from various books and web sites:
Pictures by Sir Edwin Landseer, Royal Academician, with descriptions and a biographical sketch of the painter
Pub. 1891
The third picture of the year, “The Lion and the Lamb,” is said to have been suggested by Sir Edwin seeing a lamb lying incidentally near the model of one of the Trafalgar Square lions. The painting when exhibited bore evident signs of being unfinished ; but the design, and the treatment, so far as the latter was carried, were worthy of the painter. It is by no means improbable that, if the work had again come under his hand, he would have so transformed it as to make it illustrative of Isaiah’s well-known prophecy, “ and the lion shall lie down with the lamb.”
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2010
Dragons and Undragoning: Dragons are legendary hoarders and misers, collecting precious jewels and gold and protecting them with their fiery breath. Edmund is shown to have a miserly spirit; by morphing him into a dragon, Lewis demonstrates that character is more than skin deep—it’s soul deep. His “undragoning” by Aslan is an image of repentance and restoration. Utter East: Like Shangri La, the Utter East is the name for a mystical place, the route to Aslan’s Country, a place of rest and ultimate joy. But the timing for such a journey is in Aslan’s hands, as both Reepicheep and Caspian discover. Lion/Lamb: Aslan’s transformation from Lion to Lamb and Lion again is a familiar Christian image. As Lion, Aslan/Christ is ruler and king, to whom all owe allegiance; as Lamb, he is a servant and a sacrifice in place of those he loves. There is also an echo of the Biblical prophet, Isaiah, who spoke of a time when “the lion shall lie down with the lamb,” and peace would reign. In the character of Aslan, one has both tender authority and comforting peace.
The Desert Home, by Captain Mayne Reid
Released 2006
In the midst of all these fierce creatures, the two young girls were moving about, apparently unconcerned at their presence, while the animals appeared equally unconcerned about them! The whole scene reminded us of the fanciful pictures, we had seen, of that time promised in the Sacred Book, when all the earth shall be at peace, and “the lion shall lie down with the lamb.
