Ape Collection (page 3)

If Everywhere as Successful as in Love, a Great Destiny Awaits Him, 1870. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
If Everywhere as Successful as in Love, a Great Destiny Awaits Him, 1870. John Campbell (1845-1914), Marquess of Lorne, pictured in Highland dress

The Heir of the Ages, James Payn, English novelist, 1888. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
The Heir of the Ages, James Payn, English novelist, 1888. A print from Vanity Fair, September 8th 1888

John Bright, British Radical and Liberal politician, 1869. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
John Bright, British Radical and Liberal politician, 1869. Will the Sentimental Orator be Lost in the Practical Minister, or Will Both be Extinguished?

He has Succeeded in Volunteering, Viscount Ranelagh, 1870. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
He has Succeeded in Volunteering, Viscount Ranelagh, 1870. A print from Vanity Fair, June 25th 1870

The Cool of the Evening, Lord Houghton, English poet and politician, 1870. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
The Cool of the Evening, Lord Houghton, English poet and politician, 1870. Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809-1885), was a member of the literary set known as the Apostles Club

Merchant Taylors, the Reverend James Augustus Hessey DCL, 1874. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
Merchant Taylors, the Reverend James Augustus Hessey DCL, 1874. Hessey was headmaster of Merchant Taylors School from 1845-1870. A print from Vanity Fair, October 17th 1874

Lucien Guitry, French actor, 1895. The boy with Guitry (1860-1925) is his son, Sacha (1885-1957), who went on to become an author, actor and film director

Animal carvings from the New Kingdom and Late Period, Egypt, 1936. Found in the collection of the Agyptisches Museum, Berlin

Natures evolutionary designs in noses, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire

Evolution of ManArtist: Karen Humpage
Evolution of Man

A visit to the BBC, 1937. Zoo broadcast from seal enclosure; Captain CWR Knight broadcasting with his eagle; Oundle School Choir broadcasting; broadcasting a history lesson; one of the effects

Noahs Ark, 19th century. Artist: Nathaniel Currier
Noahs Ark, 19th century

An Ape painting an Ass, 1753. Artist: George Bickham
An Ape painting an Ass, 1753. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905)

Tinan the orangutan, 1896. Artist: Henri Meyer
Tinan the orangutan, 1896. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 20th December 1896

Human and orang-utan skulls, 1848. Illustrations of the base of the skull. An engraving from the Natural History of Man, by James Cowles Prichard, (Hippolyte Bailliere, London, third edition, 1848)

Lateral view of the skull or profile, 1848. Comparison of the skulls of European and African humans with those of the chimpanzee and orang-utan

The cynoscephalus, 15th century. Mythical creature with the head of a dog or baboon. From the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

The Railway Interest, 1875. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
The Railway Interest, 1875. Edward William Watkin (1819-1901), English railway promoter and politician. Known as The Second Railway King

Prehistoric Peeps: A Night Lecture on Evolution, 1894. Artist: Edward Tennyson Reed
Prehistoric Peeps: A Night Lecture on Evolution, 1894. Satirical cartoon showing creatures halfway between men and monkeys listening to a lecture. The lectern is in the form of a pteradoctyl

Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish geologist, 1870. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish geologist, 1870. Murchison (1792-1871) investigated old rocks beneath the red sandstone

Royal Menagerie, Exeter Change, Strand, London, c1820. Edward Cross kept his menagerie here until Exeter Change was demolished in 1829 and he moved it to the Surrey Gardens, Walworth c1830

Charles Darwin, English naturalist, 1875. Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
Charles Darwin, English naturalist, 1875. Darwin (1809-1882) was employed as naturalist on HMS Beagle from 1831-1836. He first made his name as a geologist

The Lion of the Season, 1861. Artist: John Leech
The Lion of the Season, 1861. Cartoon from Punch, London, 25 May 1861, when controversy over Darwins Origin of Species was raging

Monkeyana: Am I a Man and a Brother?, 1861. Cartoon from Punch, London 18 May 1861, when controversy over Darwins Origin of Species was raging

Detail of Papyrus of Hent-Taul, Egypt, 21st Dynasty, c1069 BC - 945 BC. Papyrus of musician-priestess of Amun-Ra, entitled What is In The Underworld

Relief of Rameses III and sacred baboons, Mortuary Temple, Medinat Habu, Egypt, c12th century BC
Rameses III and sacred baboons worshipping the rising sun, Mortuary Temple of Rameses III, Medinat Habu, Egypt, c12th century BC

Relief showing Thoth, The Ramesseum, Temple of Rameses II, Luxor, Egypt, c1300 BC
Relief showing Thoth, The Ramesseum, Temple of Rameses II, Luxor, West Bank, Egypt

Reliefs of Rameses II with various gods, Temple of Rameses II, Luxor, Egypt, c1250 BC
Reliefs of Rameses II with various gods, The Ramesseum, Temple of Rameses II, Luxor, Egypt. Rameses II is depicted with Ptah (top left) and Min (top right) between Osiris and Ra (lower left)

Wallpaintings, Temple of Sethos I, Abydos, Egypt, 19th Dynasty, c1280 BC
Wallpaintings on the interior of Chapel of Thoth etc, Temple of Sethos I (Seti I), Abydos, Egypt, 19th Dynasty, c1280 BC

Eyre Massey Shaw, British firefighter, 1871. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
Eyre Massey Shaw, British firefighter, 1871. Captain Shaw (1830-1908) was head of the London Metropolitan Fire Brigade from 1861-1891. Cartoon from Vanity Fair. (London, 3 June 1871)

William Howard Russell, Irish-born British journalist, 1875. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
William Howard Russell, Irish-born British journalist, 1875. Russell (1820-1907) was war correspondent for The Times during the Crimean War) and The Daily Telegraph in the Zulu War

Anthony Panizzi, Italian bibliographer, 1874. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
Anthony Panizzi, Italian bibliographer, 1874. Panizzi (1797-1879) fled the 1821 revolution in Italy and became Chief Librarian at the British Museum (1856-1866), where he designed the Reading Room

Henry George Liddell, British scholar, 1875. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
Henry George Liddell, British scholar, 1875. The Dean of Christchurch, Oxford, Liddells (1811-1891) daughter Alice was immortalised in Lewis Carrolls Alice in Wonderland. Cartoon from Vanity Fair

Viscount Wolsley, British soldier, 1874. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
Viscount Wolsley, British soldier, 1874. Garnet Joseph Wolsley, (1833-1913) won the Victoria Cross in the Indian Mutiny and led the relief of Khartoum in 1884-1885

Model of the skull of Piltdown Man (Eanothropus dawsoni), 1914. Artist: Dr Smith Woodward
Model of the skull of Piltdown Man (Eanothropus dawsoni), 1914. Model as reconstructed by Dr Smith Woodward. Dark areas are from the original fossil, the light are the restored areas

Taungs Ape-Man. Artists drawing of Australian anatomist and ethnologist Grafton Elliot Smiths (1871-1937) idea of the appearance of a young Australopithecus Africanus

Charles Darwin, English naturalist, 1874
Charles Darwin (1809-82) English naturalist. Cartoon, depicting Darwins head superimposed on an apes body, showing another ape its reflection in a mirror

Orang Utang and Gibbon, 1822

Funerary papyrus, Ancient Egyptian, 18th Dynasty, 1550-1293 BC. Weighing the heart of the deceased in a balance. The baboon is one form of Thoth, inventor of writing and secretary to the gods

The Cats Paw: or Poor Pu(s)sey, 1850. Edward Pusey (1800-1882), English theologian, Anglo-Catholic and a leader of the Oxford Movement, shown being used as a cats paw by the Pope. Cartoon from Punch

Lyon Playfair, Scottish chemist, politician and administrator, 1875. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
Lyon Playfair, Scottish chemist, politician and administrator, 1875. Playfair (1819-18980 rose from being a chemist in the Geological Survey in 1845)

The New Photographic Looking Glass, cartoon from Punch, everyday proof of mans origins, 1861
The New Photographic Looking Glass, everyday proof of mans origins, cartoon from Punch, London, 1861. Wood engraving

US Army enlistment poster; Destroy this Mad Brute, 1917-1918

Orangutans from The Complete Works of Beranger, 1836

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