An orang-utan, a hooded serpent and an ape sitting on the outskirts of a tropical rainforest. Etching, 1744.

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[1744]
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42072i
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An orang-utan, a hooded serpent and an ape sitting on the outskirts of a tropical rainforest. Etching, 1744. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[London] : [T. Longman and others], [1744]

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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 14.2 x 21.4 cm

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Oran-ootan. The hooded serpent. An ape of Java.

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Christina Skott , 'Linnaeus and the troglodyte. Early European encounters with the Malay world and the natural history of man', Indonesia and the Malay world, vol. 42, 2014, special issue on Europe and the Malay world, pp. 141-169

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Wellcome Collection 42072i

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Frequently but probably erroneously attributed to Carolus Linnaeus (as an image of a so-called Troglodyte), though published in his lifetime

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