Title(s)

Anthropoid apes, a chimpanzee, an ourang-outang

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-403A-32

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘From photographs taken by Messrs. Briggs and Son, High Street, St. John's Wood.’
• inscription: ‘This is a photograph of the well-known "Sally" beloning to the Zoological Society.’

Description

Boven een chimpansee, onder een orang-oetan, beiden in een hok.

Artist

• Brigg & Sons (mentioned on object)
• anonymous
• printer: J. & A. Lemercier

Place

London
printer: Paris

Dating

c. 1876 - in or before 1886

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype

Measurements

height 260 mm × width 180 mm

What

• monkeys, apes
• zoological garden, zoo, seen as place where non-domestic animals are kept

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Wild animals photographed and descibed illustrated by phototype reproductions of photographic negatives taken from life (RP-F-2001-7-403A)