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  • Zoological Society of London: a Simia mormon or tufted ape. Coloured etching.
  • Skeletons of a man and an ape(?). Line engraving by J. Cole, 17--?.
  • The skulls of a female and male great ape, possibly a chimpanzee. Lithograph.
  • Skull (of an ape ?): side-view. Drawing by Léonce Manouvrier, ca. 1900.
  • Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair. Colour lithograph by C. Pellegrini [Ape], 1875.
  • John Arthur Roebuck. Chromolithograph by Vincent Brooks, Day and Son after Ape (C. Pellegrini), 1874.
  • An ape sitting on the floor of its enclosure. Reproduction of an etching by F. Lüdecke.
  • Skeletons of a man, an ape and a bear: three figures. Lithograph by B. Waterhouse Hawkins, 1860.
  • An ape of the genus ateles paniscus swing from a tree. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars.
  • An ape of the genus hapales jacchus climbing up a tree. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars.
  • An ape of the genus cercocebus fuliginosus kneeling on the ground defecating. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars.
  • An ape of the genus hylobates syndactyla standing before a tropical scenery. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars.
  • An orang-utan, a hooded serpent and an ape sitting on the outskirts of a tropical rainforest. Etching, 1744.
  • An ape of the genus midas leonina eating fom a cob of maize lying on the ground. Coloured etching.
  • An ape of the genus cercocebus sabaeus walking on all four on stony ground. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars.
  • An ape of the genus callithrix sciureus standing on the ground lifting the right arm. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars.
  • An ape of the genus callithrix sciureus standing on the ground lifting the right arm. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars.
  • A ape of the genus pithecia melancocephalia sitting on the ground with both arms raised. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars.
  • Human skulls of different racial types: eleven figures also including the skull of an ape, and a graph demonstrating different angles. Engraving.
  • An orang-utan is fleeing into the crown of a tree chased by three men in loincloths shooting arrows at the ape. Wood engraving.
  • Birds and animals in a neo-classical garden: ape, cassowary, pheasant, ostrich, swallow, peacocks and peahens. Etching by J. Griffier, ca. 1655, after F. Barlow.
  • An ape of the genus troglodytes niger standing before a tropical scenery holding a large branch of a tree. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars.
  • An ape in military attire, sitting astride a hog, confronts a baboon, also in military attire, who sits astride a bear. Engraving by F. Barlow, ca. 1679/1680.
  • An ape in military attire, sitting astride a hog, confronts a baboon, also in military attire, who sits astride a bear. Engraving by F. Barlow, ca. 1679/1680.
  • G.W. Wardle, an ape-like figure scavenging with a rake and a lantern, followed by pigs and ducks, stumbles across a decapitated corpse. Aquatint, 1811.
  • Brain of a white-crowned mangabey (ape): four figures showing sections and microscopic images of the brain. Watercolour and ink, possibly by D. Gascoigne Lillie, ca. 1905.
  • An unkempt ape on crutches tells his mates that he has returned from being an experimental animal at a congress of gastroenterologists. Colour lithograph after G. De Finetti, ca. 1904.
  • Human and ape skulls: eight outline diagrams, comparing the proportions of skulls of different racial types with those of an orang utan and a monkey. Engraving by T. Milton, 1807.
  • A physician holding an astronomical instrument looks into a mirror to observe the backside of a woman who inserts a speculum between her buttocks; right, an ape. Etching by W. Hollar.
  • Java: a man and a woman of mixed race (Dutch and Javanese), with the woman holding a young child in her arms, standing outside a plantation; right an ape of Java (orangoutan?). Etching by F. Garden, 1752.