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Image number: RS.9966
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‘The pig-tailed monkey from the Island of Sumatra...’ [Pig tailed macaque]
Date
1755
Creator
George Edwards (1694 - 1773, British) , Ornithologist
Object type
Library reference
38029
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 286mm
width (print): 220mm
width (print): 220mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological study of the Pig tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina), posed upright and holding a wooden staff. With a profile detail of the monkey’s head.
Plate 214 from chapter 4 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c..., by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). The macaque was owned by George Edwards and was described by him in the accompanying text: “This Monkey was brought from the East Indies, in the year 1752...it was about the bigness of a common house-cat...an uncommon species of Monkey, it being the first I remember to have seen of its kind: it was a male; but since I purchased this, which lived a year with me, I have seen a female of the same species shewn in Bartholomew Fair, London. It was larger by half than mine, which I carried to compare with it: they seemed highly pleased with each other’s company, though it was the first time of their meeting...”
The plate is inscribed very faintly: “Published according to Act of Parliament January the first 1755 George.Edwards Delin: et Sculp.”
Plate 214 from chapter 4 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c..., by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). The macaque was owned by George Edwards and was described by him in the accompanying text: “This Monkey was brought from the East Indies, in the year 1752...it was about the bigness of a common house-cat...an uncommon species of Monkey, it being the first I remember to have seen of its kind: it was a male; but since I purchased this, which lived a year with me, I have seen a female of the same species shewn in Bartholomew Fair, London. It was larger by half than mine, which I carried to compare with it: they seemed highly pleased with each other’s company, though it was the first time of their meeting...”
The plate is inscribed very faintly: “Published according to Act of Parliament January the first 1755 George.Edwards Delin: et Sculp.”
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