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  • Apes playing with a goldsmith's apparatus. Engraving by Nicolaes de Bruyn, ca 1621.
  • Female apes in human clothes are brawling, restrained by male apes in human clothes. Etching by W. Heath.
  • Apes' skulls: six figures showing ape heads and an ape skull from the front and in profile. Line engraving, 1780/1800?.
  • Evolution in humans and apes. Colour lithograph, 1952.
  • Apes, some in clothes, sitting below a forest tree and using a log as a see-saw. Etching.
  • Thirteen different mammals ranging from apes, rodents and marsupials to a whale. Coloured lithograph.
  • Five apes: orangutan, Barbary ape, baboon, leonine monkey and varied monkey. Etching by J. Scott, ca. 1808.
  • A tree populated by six different specimen of the genus Nasalis (apes). Coloured etching by S. Milne.
  • Six different specimen of monkeys and apes shown in their arboreal habitat. Coloured etching by T. Brown after J. Stewart.
  • Above, a scomber (marine fish), a milliped, three fish, a jellyfish and selenites; below, two beetles and four apes. Engraving by Heath.
  • An ape with a robe and a crown, with a bodyguard of apes behind, stands on a hill holding up a small clothed ape before an assembly of animals below; illustration of a fable by J. Ogilby. Etching.
  • Orang-outang, sive homo sylvestris: or, the anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man. To which is added, a philological essay concerning the pygmies, the cynocephali, the satyrs and spinges of the ancients. Wherein it will appear that they are all either apes or monkeys, and not men, as formerly pretended / By Edward Tyson.
  • Orang-outang, sive homo sylvestris: or, the anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man. To which is added, a philological essay concerning the pygmies, the cynocephali, the satyrs and spinges of the ancients. Wherein it will appear that they are all either apes or monkeys, and not men, as formerly pretended / By Edward Tyson.
  • One ape removing lice from the fur of another ape. Reproduction of an etching by F. Lüdecke.
  • Charles Robert Darwin, as an ape, holds a mirror up to another ape. Colour lithograph by F. Betbeder.
  • Charles Robert Darwin, as an ape, holds a mirror up to another ape. Colour lithograph by F. Betbeder.
  • Skeleton of an ape. Etching, 1800/1850?.
  • Sir George Biddell Airy. Chromolithograph by [Ape], 1875.
  • Sir Henry Thompson. Watercolour by C. Pellegrini [Ape], 1874.
  • Sir Oscar Clayton. Colour lithograph by C. Pellegrini [Ape].
  • Sir William Withey Gull. Watercolour by C. Pellegrini [Ape], 1875.
  • Thomas Henry Huxley. Colour lithograph by C. Pellegrini [Ape], 1871.
  • Sir Morrell Mackenzie. Colour lithograph by C. Pellegrini [Ape], 1887.
  • Sir William Fergusson. Colour lithograph by C. Pellegrini [Ape], 1870.
  • Sir Morrell Mackenzie. Colour lithograph by C. Pellegrini [Ape], 1887.
  • Sir Henry Thompson. Colour lithograph by C. Pellegrini [Ape], 1874.
  • Thomas Henry Huxley. Colour lithograph by C. Pellegrini [Ape], 1871.
  • Chinese woodcut: Play of the five creatures, 4 - The Ape
  • Sir William Bartlett Dalby. Colour lithograph by C. Pellegrini [Ape], 1888.
  • Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. Colour lithograph by C. Pellegrini [Ape], 1870.