Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12981

    Bare-eared squirrel monkey

    Date
    1844
    Creator
    Borromée (French) , Printmaker
    After
    Jean-Charles Werner (1798 - 1856, French) , Artist
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 299mm
    width (print): 227mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > monkey
    Description
    Zoological study of the Bare-eared squirrel monkey Saimiri ustus (here styled Saimiris ustus) shown on a tree branch. This South American monkey is native to Brazil.

    Plate 1 accompanying the paper ‘Singes Américaines’ by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.4 (Paris, 1844) pp.5-42.

    Inscribed above: ‘Archives du Muséum. Tome 4 Pl. I’. Inscribed below: ‘2/3 (1) SAIMIRI A DOS BRULE, SAIMIRIS USTUS, Is. Geoff. Werner pinx. Borromée Dir.’

    Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861) French zoologist.
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