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Baboons

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  • A baboon walking on all fours. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A baboon sitting on the ground with a smoking pipe and tankard. Etching with stipple by W. Panormo after himself.
  • Five apes: orangutan, Barbary ape, baboon, leonine monkey and varied monkey. Etching by J. Scott, ca. 1808.
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Catalogue

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    A large male hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) with two females behind him. Colour engraving.

    | Reference: 39713i
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    A baboon. Wood-engraving by T. Bewick, 1789.

    Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828. | Date: [between 1790 and 1799?] | Reference: 751376i
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    Africa: a lion, an elephant, a boa constrictor and a baboon are keeping a watchful eye on a crocodile about to emerge from the river; above, a secretary bird. Engraving by J. Barlow after W. M. Craig.

    Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829. | Date: 24 June 1804 | Reference: 42078i
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    A baboon sitting on the ground with a smoking pipe and tankard. Etching with stipple by W. Panormo after himself.

    Panormo, William, 1796-1867. | Reference: 24877i
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    A baboon walking on all fours. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. | Date: 1887 | Reference: 2015319i
    Part of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
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