Lion-Tailed Macaque

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Simia ferox. The Lion tailed monkey.

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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
Open Library:
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Description:

Copper-plate engraving showing a lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus), a monkey in the family Cercopithecidae, native to India and remarkable for the mane of white hair surrounding its face.

This plate was engraved after a watercolor sketch.

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