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Gorilla gorilla

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Images from the collections

Images about Gorilla gorilla

8 images from works
  • A gorilla. Lithograph by Jonathan Kingdon.
  • The hands, feet, nose and ear of a gorilla. Lithograph by G H Ford.
  • A partially skinned gorilla with various studies of the head. Lithograph by G H Ford.
  • Thomas Henry Huxley lecturing on the skull of the gorilla. Photograph by Cundall Downes & Co.
  • The limbs, hands and feet of a male gorilla. Lithograph by F. Robinson, 1865, after J. Wolf.
  • Thomas Henry Huxley lecturing on the skull of the gorilla. Photograph by Cundall Downes & Co.
  • Charles Bradlaugh as a gorilla in a zoo. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 3 December 1887.
  • Three sections of a gorilla brain. Lithograph by F. Robinson, 1865.

Works from the collections

21 works

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    A section of a gorilla skull showing the cranial cavity. Lithograph.

    | Reference: 39729i
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    Thomas Henry Huxley lecturing on the skull of the gorilla. Photograph by Cundall Downes & Co.

    | Date: [1861?] | Reference: 12956i
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    A large male gorilla. Coloured lithograph by J Wolf.

    Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899. | Reference: 39725i
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    A gorilla which has just killed a hunter with his own weapon. Wood engraving after J Whitney.

    Whitney, J. | Reference: 39717i
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    Ueber das Gehirn eines Gorilla und die untere oder dritte Stirnwindung der Affen / [v. Bischoff].

    Bischoff, Theodore Ludwig Wilhelm, 1807-1882. | Date: [1877]
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Anatomy, Comparative

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