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

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
    Reference
    39681i
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  • Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.

    • Bristow, Edmund, 1787-1876.
    Date
    1 February 1828
    Reference
    16677i
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  • A female figure with bowls of fruit and a monkey; Eve picks the apple from the tree of knowledge; representing the sense of taste. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.

    • Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.
    Reference
    26958i
    Part of
    The five senses (Martin de Vos)
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  • Cerebral convolutions of the anthropidae (man) and simiadae (apes and monkeys).

    • Sharkey, Seymour John (Sir)
    Date
    1878
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  • A monkey dressed in preparation against the cholera epidemic. Etching, c. 1832.

    Date
    1832
    Reference
    17853i
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  • A monkey holding a clyster in an apothecary's shop. Engraving by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
    Reference
    15879i
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  • Two skulls of monkeys. Grey wash drawing, c. 1789.

    • Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.
    Date
    c. 1789
    Reference
    29236i
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  • A man dressed in macaroni-style with a high head-dress meets a monkey dressed in the same style. Mezzotint, 1774.

    Date
    Aug 2nd. 1774
    Reference
    2059375i
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  • A monkey barber-surgeon's establishment. Oil painting after David Teniers the younger.

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
    Reference
    45072i
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  • 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]
    Reference
    16915i
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  • Cerebral cortex of the monkey.

    • Ferrier, David, 1843-1928.
    Date
    1949
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  • A monkey patient being treated by a monkey surgeon with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, c. 1660.

    • Steen, Jan, 1626-1679.
    Reference
    17510i
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  • 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
    Reference
    17505i
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  • Two monkeys on a branch. Watercolour.

    Reference
    576820i
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  • People causing a nuisance by smoking in the street. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.

    • Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850.
    Date
    1827
    Reference
    138i
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  • Doctor Bossy, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants. Coloured etching by W. Birch, 1792, after A. van Assen.

    • Van Assen, Benedictus Antonio, -1817.
    Date
    1 April 1792
    Reference
    20579i
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  • Hanuman kneeling with tail encircling Rama and Sita in bed, while several monkeys circle around Ravana. Gouache drawing.

    Reference
    25982i
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  • 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, 17--.

    Reference
    27128i
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  • 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.
    Reference
    44086i
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  • Three monkeys playing with a ball and chain and potted plant outside a classical house. Etching.

    Reference
    39672i
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  • A monkey (Mitis monkey). Lithograph by Jonathan Kingdon.

    • Kingdon, Jonathan.
    Reference
    25258i
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  • Hot Springs, Mtagata, Central Africa: H.M. Stanley observing the therapeutic powers of the hot springs. Wood engraving, 1878.

    Date
    16 February 1878
    Reference
    18398i
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  • A cowering monkey with some weighing scales selling drugs to two cats. Lithograph.

    Reference
    39690i
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  • Separate pictures of garden fruit, flowers, vegetables, birds, dogs and two monkeys dressed as gardeners. Coloured etchings, 18th century.

    Reference
    26643i
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  • The speech of monkeys / by R.L. Garner.

    • Garner, R. L. (Richard Lynch), 1848-1920.
    Date
    1892
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