Bornean Gallery

Bornean orangutans, Pongo pygmaeus. Critically endangered

Bornean orangutans, Pongo pygmaeus. Critically endangered. Orang-outang. Handcoloured steel engraving drawn and engraved by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1834-39. Date:

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Bornean orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus (endangered)

Bornean orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus (endangered) and silvery gibbon, Hylobates moloch (endangered). . Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuvier's Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris, France, 1816. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Carnonkel, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

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Catopuma badia, bay cat

Felis badia. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. One of 43 hand-coloured lithographs by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) and Joseph Smit (1836-1929)

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