Chimpanzee [graphic]

Description

Title: Chimpanzee [graphic]
Creator: Scotin, Gérard Jean Baptiste, 1698-approximately 1755, printmaker
Contributor: Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773, artist.
Published / Created: publish'd Nov. 27, 1738, according to the late act.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A chimpanzee holding a bowl stands in a landscape, a decorated frame surrounding the image. In the background left, a man shoots an arrow at chimpanzees climbing a palm tree, and on the right three chimpanzees play on the ground, one standing upright holding a stick
Description: Title engraved below image.
Six lines of text below title: This creature was brought over by Capt. Henry Flower in the ship Speaker from Angola, on the coast of Guinea, in August 1738. It is of the female kind, & is two feet four inches high, walks erect ...
Dedication engraved at bottom of plate: To Sr. Hans Sloane Bart., President of the Royal Society, this plate is humbly inscribed.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance: Purchased from Andrew Edmunds; May 2017.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 40.3 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Etchings England London 1738
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753.
Subject (Topic): Animals in human situations
Chimpanzees
Hunting
Subjects: Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753
Animals in human situations
Chimpanzees
Hunting
England > London > 1738

Access: Public
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