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'Pithecus satyrus' [Orangutan] ringlets Watt's Shot Tower on the

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'Pithecus satyrus' [Orangutan] ringlets Watt's Shot Tower on the
'Pithecus satyrus' [Orangutan] ringlets Watt's Shot Tower on the
'Pithecus satyrus' [Orangutan] ringlets Watt's Shot Tower on the
'Pithecus satyrus' [Orangutan] ringlets Watt's Shot Tower on the
Description

Watt's Shot Tower on the Lambeth bank of the River Thames is in the foreground

Inscribed with publication and plate details and pencil notes upper left 'Page 8 Young Wolf

The scene may illustrate the San Guo Zhi Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Ornithological study of a flightless bird

King Louis-Philippe

'Pithecus satyrus' [Orangutan] ringlets Watt's Shot Tower on theZoological study of an orang utan, possibly the Bornean orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus shown in profile, seated and holding a fruit. A mountainous forest landscape is visible behind. Plate 2 from The natural history of monkeys, by Sir William Jardine (Edinburgh, 1833) The Naturalist's Library. Mammalia. Vol. 1. Referred to in the text as 'The red or asiatic orang utang'. The plate is inscribed: 'PLATE 2. PITHECUS SATYRUS. Lizars sc.' Original: etching. 1833

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