Caption
Illustration of Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). 1833, Plate 1. Troglodytes niger, 'Black Orang'. The species was not well known yet with the first arriving in London zoo in 1835. Steel plate engraving with contemporary hand colouring from 'The Naturalist's Library' Mammalia, Vol. I 'The Natural History of Monkeys'. Sir William Jardine. Published in Edinburgh by Lizars, 1833. This was the first mammal volume in a series of 40 volumes on mammals, birds, insects and fish produced over ten years.
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