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The speech of monkeys

Garner, R. L. 1848-1920.

Date: 1892

The natural history of monkeys

Jardine, William, 1800-1874.

Date: [1845-46]

Three monkeys playing with a ball and chain and potted plant outside a classical house. Etching.

A monkey (Mitis monkey). Lithograph by Jonathan Kingdon.

Kingdon, Jonathan.

Monkeys expressions from Darwin's Expression of Emotions...

Monkeys around a fruit tree spur on two monkeys to jump and catch fruit. Etching by G. Bickham after Gillot.

Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722.

Two monkeys on a branch. Watercolour, ca. 1920.

Four monkeys dressed as musicians giving a concert. Coloured engraving after D Teniers.

Teniers, David, 1610-1690.

Engraving of an orang-outang.

Results of hemisection of the spinal cord in monkeys

Mott, F. W. 1853-1926.

Date: 1892

Two howling monkeys on a branch. Watercolour, ca. 1920.

Five different monkeys numbered from 1 to 5. Coloured etching.

A boy with a monkey perched on his shoulder is begging for alms from an elegant gentlemen. Coloured lithograph by E.J. Pigal.

Pigal, Edmé Jean, 1798-1872.

A flock of parrots and two monkeys gathered round a fountain in a classical garden. Engraving by P. Casteels, 1726, after himself.

Casteels, Peter, 1684-1749.

Monkeys dressed as apothecaries caring for sick animals in a surgery. Engraving by C. Bol after D. Teniers.

Teniers, David, 1610-1690.

Date: [s.d.]

A medicine vendor tying up his pet monkey. Etching by T. Major after D. Teniers II.

Teniers, David, 1610-1690.

A chained monkey being bombarded by a flock of crows as people arrive on it's land. Engraving by R Brandard, ca 1835, after W Daniell.

Daniell, William, 1769-1837.

Date: 1 Oct 1835

Two monkeys in feathered caps smoking tobacco. Engraving after D. Teniers.

Teniers, David, 1610-1690.

Date: [s.d.]

Cerebral convolutions of the anthropidae (man) and simiadae (apes and monkeys).

Sharkey, Seymour John (Sir)

Date: 1878

Six different specimen of monkeys (weepers). Coloured etching by S. Milne.

Two monkeys and a horse. Cut-out engravings pasted onto paper, 16--?

Date: [between 1600 and 1699?]

Twelve specimen of the class Mammalia, includingman, chimpanzee, baboons and monkeys. Engraving.

Apes' skulls: six figures showing ape heads and an ape skull from the front and in profile. Line engraving, 1780/1800?

Date: [1780/1800?]

Upon the virulence of the bacillus of bovine and human tuberculosis for monkeys

Macfayden, Allan, 1860-1907

Date: [1903?]

Skulls of male and female Sayou monkeys, with vertical sections. Lithograph, c. 1835.

Hollander, Bernard, 1864-1934.

A monkey squirting water through a large syringe at two other monkeys. Lithograph.

Date: [between 1830 and 1839?]

Three monkeys: capuchin, probosus and negro. Reproduction of an etching after E. H. Landseer.

Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873.

Six different specimen of the genus Macaccae (macaque-monkeys). Coloured etching by S. Milne.

Two monkeys taken from a Persian manuscript on the natural sciences in Nasta'liq script

Three monkeys: wanderoo, howling monkey and diana. Reproduction of an etching after E. H. Landseer.

Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873.

Date: 1890

A street entertainer with his performing monkeys and goat. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.

Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]

Temperature range in the monkey in ether anaesthesia : preliminary note

Simpson, Sutherland, 1863-1926.

Date: 1902

Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.

Sambon, L. W. 1865-1931.

On the descending degenerations which follow lesions of the gyrus marginalis and gyrus fornicatus in monkeys

Date: 1889

A lion is devouring its prey and growling at two brightly coloured monkeys nearby. Colour line block.

Brazil: a puma attacks an ant eater in a forest with howling monkeys looking on. Coloured lithograph.

Temple sculpture: a tree with two monkeys and two birds surrounded by a decorative border. Pencil drawing.

Date: [between 1800 and 1899]

Six different specimen of the family Calitricidae (monkeys), including marmosets and tamarins. Coloured etching by S. Milne.

A monkey (simia apella) walking past its own portrait engraved on stone. Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.

Maréchal, Nicolas, -1803.

Date: [1808]

A monkey rejects the old style clyster for his new 'clyso-pompe', which he fills with opium and marshmallow. Coloured lithograph.

A monkey wearing human clothes. Gouache, 18--.

Date: [between 1800 and 1899]

Monkeys gather tea leaves for a Chinese man waiting with a bowl. Coloured etching by A. Freschi, c. 1812.

Freschi, Andrea, 1774-

Date: 25 April 1812

Hanuman kneeling with tail encircling Rama and Sita in bed, while several monkeys circle around Ravana. Gouache drawing.

Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristowe, 1828.

A tea plantation in China: monkeys gather tea leaves for men with baskets. Coloured aquatint, early 19th century.

Separate pictures of garden fruit, flowers, vegetables, birds, dogs and two monkeys dressed as gardeners. Coloured etchings, 18th century.

A barber-surgeon's house, where monkeys shave cats and let blood. Line engraving, c. 1660, after D. Teniers II.

Teniers, David, 1610-1690.

Date: [1660?]

A monkey barber-surgeon's establishment. Oil painting after David Teniers the younger.

Teniers, David, 1610-1690.

A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.

Debauched monkeys revelling in a dingy tavern as two have a boxing match. Coloured lithograph by T. Fairland after E. Bristow.

Bristow, Edmund, 1787-1876.

Six different specimen of monkeys and apes shown in their arboreal habitat. Coloured etching by T. Brown after J. Stewart.

Stewart, James, 1791-1863.

A monkey in elegant costume is addressing a group of wild monkeys under a tree. Engraving after E. H. Landseer.

Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873.

Two monkeys, one of which is standing on a tree branch. Chromolithograph by F. Gerasch after A. Gerasch, 1860/1880?

Gerasch, August, 1822-1902.

Date: [1860/1880?]

Monkeys dressed as jockeys riding hounds to the Charenton insane asylum. Colour lithograph by Régnier, Béttannier and Morlon after D'Orschwiller, 1860.

Date: 1860

Practitioners and patients in a busy barber-surgeon's shop; represented by monkeys and other animals. Engraving by C. Bol after D. Teniers.

Teniers, David, 1610-1690.

Date: [between 1600 and 1699]

A man watches as a woman steals money from an old man who is embracing her. Engraving by P. Fürst, 1652.

Fürst, Paul, approximately 1605-1666.

Date: 1652

Half-human, half-monkey barbers shaving a goat. Etching by G. van der Gucht after J. Wootton.

Wootton, John, 1686-1765.

Birds of prey gathered by a lakeside: falcon, heron, monkey, vulture, sea gull and eagle. Etching by J. Griffier after F. Barlow.

Barlow, Francis, 1626?-1702.

A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).

A monkey in elegant costume is addressing a group of wild monkeys under a tree. Engraving by B.P. Gibbon after E. H. Landseer.

Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873.

A street entertainer makes two monkeys on a lead, dance to music as part of an act. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.

Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]

Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man...1875

A sleeping pedlar's posterior is examined by monkeys, who play with his goods. Line engraving after P. van Harlingen after P. Bruegel, c. 1610.

Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569.

Date: c. 1610

A labourer asks a gentleman for his wages so that he may get drunk; both represented as dwarfs. Coloured etching after M. Engelbrecht, 1715.

Engelbrecht, Martin, 1684-1756.

Hanuman. Gouache drawing.

A title-vignette consisiting of various animals, including monkeys, vultures, a lion and an otter forming an ornametal flourished arch over a stream. Wood engraving.

Date: 1854

One of forty-nine coloured gouache illustrations.

One of forty-nine coloured gouache illustrations.

Bas-relief panel from the Mahabharata of a battle scene. A furious melée with chariots, horses, men and monkeys [? or demons]. Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia.

Bas-relief panel from the Mahabharata of a battle scene. A furious melée with chariots, horses, men and monkeys [? or demons]. Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia.

A monkey sailor and a female monkey, both dressed in human clothing, standing on a dance floor. Etching by T. Landseer, 1827.

Landseer, Thomas, 1795-1880.

Date: [1827]

A monkey (dressed as a human being) giving birth to a baby monkey aided by a midwife and two attendants. Reproduction of an engraving.

Date: [1934]

Page 131: Hanuman. Gouache drawing.

Macaca mulatta : management of a laboratory breeding colony

Valerio, David Allen.

Date: 1969

One of forty-nine coloured gouache illustrations.

One of forty-nine coloured gouache illustrations.

Two monkeys sitting on a pineapple in a fruit bowl are attentively watching a wasp on the fruit stalk. Steel engraving by T. Landseer after E. H. Landseer.

Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873.

The death of Ravana, the ten headed demon king of Lanka by Lord Rama, his brother Lakshman and an army of monkeys. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.

Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]

A monkey dressed in preparation against the cholera epidemic. Etching, c. 1832.

A man looking through a magnifying glass at a picture of a monkey, whose flatulence extinguishes the flame of a candle; representing the pleasures of the sense of sight. Engraving, 16--.

A monkey barber's shop. Engraving after P. van der Borcht.

Borcht, Petrus van der, 1545-1608.

Hindi Manuscript 404

An alchemist's laboratory inhabited by monkeys: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after their obsessive, fruitless experiments. Etching by P. van der Borcht, ca. 1580.

Borcht, Petrus van der, 1545-1608.

An monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers II.

Teniers, David, 1610-1690.

A tooth-drawer performing to a crowd accompanied by a howling patient, a monkey and a man dressed in Roman costume. Coloured lithograph by Lavrate(?).

A wealthy family arriving at a hotel and being greeted by the proprietor. Engraving.

Rama and Sita enthroned with servant and monkey. Lithograph.

The menagerie of Blaauw Jan (Jan Berentsz Westerhof): animals including ostriches, monkeys, lions and peacocks are shown in and around a large central cage, surrounded by people drinking at tables. Etching by T. Crajenschot, 1751.

Crajenschot, T.

Date: 1751

Three monkeys with the words 'Hear, Look, Talk, AIDS for yourself' representing an advertisement for the Stop AIDS Kanagawa campaign as part of the 10th International Conference on AIDS and STD in 1994. Colour lithograph, 1994.

Date: 1994

Hot Springs, Mtagata, Central Africa: H.M. Stanley observing the therapeutic powers of the hot springs. Wood engraving, 1878.

Date: 16 February 1878

Thirteen different mammals ranging from apes, rodents and marsupials to a whale. Coloured lithograph.

Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine salesman, demonstrating his wares with the aid of a monkey. Engraving by G. Walker, 1792, after M. Laroon.

Laroon, Marcellus, 1653-1702.

Date: 10 July 1793

Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine salesman demonstrating his wares with the aid of a monkey. Colour line engraving after M. Laroon.

Laroon, Marcellus, 1653-1702.

Page 7: Hanuman carrying Rama and Laksmana. Watercolour drawing.

A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700

A profile of an old mentally handicapped man, skulls of various races, skulls of a monkey and an orangutan, and a perfect, diagrammed human face; demonstrating the methods of physiognomy. Coloured engraving by H. Adlard, 1824.

Date: 1824

An itinerant medicine vendor sitting on a donkey with his boxes of medicines, a monkey sits on his shoulder and a boy in a fool's costume blows a trumpet. Watercolour by M. Calisch.

Calisch, Moritz, 1819-1870.

Richard Dickinson, an eccentric who imagines himself a wealthy king, from Scarborough. Engraving by J. Clark., 1725.

Clark, John, active 1825.

A gang of hunters pretend to wash their eyes with a slimy substance, thus fooling the monkeys, who 'ape' them and blind themselves, allowing the hunters to move in. Line engraving by J. Collaert after J. van der Straet, c. 1610.

Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605.

Date: c. 1610

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