Common idea of an animal of the "higher primates" (the simians in English excluding apes)

Paradise lost : break the chain / BUAV.

Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.

A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.

A monkey physician examining a cat patient for fleas. Coloured lithograph.

Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine vendor, dressed in theatrical costume while selling his wares, assisted by another costumed person and a monkey. Engraving by I.R. Cruikshank after a Delft plate by B.S., 1750.

Hanuman revealing Rama and Sita in his heart. Watercolour drawing.

A profile of an old mentally disabled man, skulls of various races, skulls of a monkey and an orangutan, and a perfect, diagrammed human face; demonstrating the methods of physiognomy. Coloured engraving by H. Adlard, 1824.

A monkey (Mitis monkey). Lithograph by Jonathan Kingdon.

A monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Process print after J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers the younger.

Richard Dickinson, an eccentric man from Scarborough, who imagines he is a king, sitting with his pet fox and monkey. Engraving by G. Vertue after H. Hysing, 1725.

A monkey surgeon prepares to treat a monkey patient with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, ca. 1660.

A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).

1 print : engraving, with watercolour ; 21.8 x 25.6 cm

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

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 21 x 18.3 cm

Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 9.1 x 11.7 cm.

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.

Cerebral convolutions of the anthropidae (man) and simiadae (apes and monkeys).

1 print : etching ; platemark 28.5 x 20 cm

A monkey dressed in preparation against the cholera epidemic. Etching, c. 1832.

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Monkeys

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

Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.

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.

Cerebral convolutions of the anthropidae (man) and simiadae (apes and monkeys).

A monkey dressed in preparation against the cholera epidemic. Etching, c. 1832.

Monkeys

Images from the collections

Images referencing Monkeys

Works from the collections

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

Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.

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.

Cerebral convolutions of the anthropidae (man) and simiadae (apes and monkeys).

A monkey dressed in preparation against the cholera epidemic. Etching, c. 1832.

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