'Pithecus satyrus' [Orangutan] ringlets Bylaert Fec

Bylaert Fec

St Mary le Bow and St Bride's

Loughborough House

The scene may illustrate the San Guo Zhi Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Inscribed with publication and plate details and pencil notes upper left 'Page 8 Young Wolf

'Pithecus satyrus' [Orangutan] ringlets Bylaert FecZoological study of an orang utan, possibly the Bornean orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus shown in profile, seated and holding a fruit. A mountainous forest landscape is visible behind. Plate 2 from The natural history of monkeys, by Sir William Jardine (Edinburgh, 1833) The Naturalist's Library. Mammalia. Vol. 1. Referred to in the text as 'The red or asiatic orang utang'. The plate is inscribed: 'PLATE 2. PITHECUS SATYRUS. Lizars sc.' Original: etching. 1833