Chimpanzee [graphic]Scotin, Gérard Jean Baptiste, 1698-approximately 1755, printmakerpublish'd Nov. 27, 1738, according to the late act.engA 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 stickTitle 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.