'The pig-tailed monkey from the Island of Sumatra...' [Pig tailed macaque] AJS 13th April 1962

13th April 1962

A street seller with a pot or basket balanced on her head

The people were beginning to starve

Milton Street

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'The pig-tailed monkey from the Island of Sumatra...' [Pig tailed macaque] AJS 13th April 1962Zoological study of the Pig tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina), posed upright and holding a wooden staff. With a profile detail of the monkey's head. Plate 214 from chapter 4 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). The plate is inscribed very faintly: 'Published according to Act of Parliament January the first 1755 George. Edwards Delin: