In the past, Algeria, Tunisia, and especially Morocco were countries where wild animals were very abundant in the first decades of the 19th century. This was the case for lions, still many at the time of the French conquest. But in 1893 the last individual of this species, a lioness, was shot north of the Aurès, in the Ich Ali mountain range.
This engraving is the work of late 19th-century travelers, linked to colonial interests, who wanted to showcase this part of the French Empire.
