Lion-Tailed Macaque

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Zoom in — Simia ferox. The Lion tailed monkey.

(Facing p. 69, II.)

Artist

Name:: Ryley, Charles Reuben
Dates:: 1752?-1798
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: Animals
Technique:: Metal Engraving
Engraver:: Skelton, William
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: McGill University Library, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Museum Leverianum
Author:: Shaw, George
Publisher:: London: James Parkinson, 1792
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Description:

Copper-plate engraving of two lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus), one depicted sitting, the other standing and leaning on a stick. The lion-tailed macaque is a monkey in the family Cercopithecidae, native to India and notable for the mane of white hair surrounding its face.

This plate was engraved after a watercolor sketch.

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