'Pithecus satyrus' [Orangutan] olive green 'Gaul to the New Caesar'

'Gaul to the New Caesar'

Horses loaded with barrels and hops

by Nathaniel Matthew Wolfe (1724-1784)

Showing Queen Victoria giving an audience to an ambassador

'Pithecus satyrus' [Orangutan] olive green 'Gaul to the New Caesar'Zoological study of an orang utan, possibly the Bornean orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus shown from the front, seated and indicating towards a half eaten fruit placed on the ground. 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*.