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.

1905

1 painting : watercolour with ink ; sheet 56.1 x 77.7 cm

Extensive hand-written notes on verso Drawings are annotated by hand in pen

Wellcome Collection 572980i

The name of the zoologist responsible for this drawing is not known, although the subjects of the dissections in this series of watercolours suggests an Australasian, such as Denis Gascoigne Lillie or T. Jeffery Parker. One of the specimens depicted in the series was picked up at 'W. Renton [?] beach', which has not been located