'Hylobates syndactyla' [Siamang gibbon] Finish:Float frame No 8 Old Jewry

No 8 Old Jewry

A man in the costume of the late 17th century carrying a tankard or churn over one shoulder

part of the later 'Continuation of Miraculum Mundi'

Gracechurch St

'Hylobates syndactyla' [Siamang gibbon] Finish:Float frame No 8 Old JewryZoological study of a siamang Symphalangus syndactylus, a gibbon native to Malaysia, Thailand and Sumatra. Shown standing upright with one arm extended. A forested landscape behind. Plate 4 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 siamang'. The plate is inscribed: 'PLATE 4. HYLOBATES SYNDACTYLA. Lizars sc.' Original: etching. 1833