Orangutan skeleton
Date
1798
Creator
Wilson Lowry (1762 - 1824, British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 128mm
width (print): 128mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Anatomical study of the skeleton of an Orangutan, Pongo, species unidentified. Shown in an upright position, half turned to the left as viewed, the skull in profile.
The author stated that ‘This skeleton of Wurmb’s ape [Christoph Carl Friedrich von Wurmb (1742-1781)], one of the most curious and most valuable in the national collection, will furnish us with very important observations, that may serve to give a better idea of the species in question, than a description of the external parts’.
Plate 11, illustrating the paper: ‘Observations on the account of the supposed Orang Outang of the East Indies, published in the Transactions of the Batavian Society in the Island of Java. By De Geoffroy…’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.1, (1798) pp.337-342.
Inscribed above: ‘Philos. Mag. Pl.XI.’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
The author stated that ‘This skeleton of Wurmb’s ape [Christoph Carl Friedrich von Wurmb (1742-1781)], one of the most curious and most valuable in the national collection, will furnish us with very important observations, that may serve to give a better idea of the species in question, than a description of the external parts’.
Plate 11, illustrating the paper: ‘Observations on the account of the supposed Orang Outang of the East Indies, published in the Transactions of the Batavian Society in the Island of Java. By De Geoffroy…’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.1, (1798) pp.337-342.
Inscribed above: ‘Philos. Mag. Pl.XI.’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
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