Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14050

    ‘Orang-utan’

    Date
    1894
    Creator
    Unknown, Lithographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN60260
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 251mm
    width (print): 175mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Zoological study of two orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus?) in a forest setting.

    Plate 1 from Der mensch, by Johannes Ranke, volume 2 (Leipzig, Bibliographisches Institut, 1894). The plate is titled below: ‘ORANG-UTAN’.

    Johannes Ranke (1836-1916) German physiologist and anthropologist.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > Germany
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