Engraving of an Orang-Utan on Borneo 'Kalimantan' or Sumatra, Indonesia, 1739

Title: The Chimpanzee from Angola: A Catalogue of Enlightenment Era Natural History Engravings Description: This finely detailed 18th-century engraving depicts a young chimpanzee st...

Title: "Lion-tailed Macaque - A Portrait of Wild Majesty" Description: This 19th-century coloured engraving, a creation of the German School, portrays the distinctive Lion-tailed Ma...

Title: Antique Primate Engraving of a Sapajou Atèle Hybride and Macaque Domestique - 19th Century Description: This exquisite antique print captures two fascinating primate species,...

Original antique hand-colored print of three monkeys. Very decorative. Encounter the intriguing world of primates through this collection featuring three remarkable species captured...

Le Grand Gibbon is an etching realized by Pierre Charles Baquoy in 1771. It belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi"...

The Monkey is a wonderful black and white etching on thick laid paper, realized by the Italian master Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630). Not signed. In excellent conditions, except for some stains. Image Dimensions: 5 x 7 / 8 x 10 cm. Including a cream-colored cardboard passepartout, 34 x 50 cm. An exciting original print, with all the dignity of a mythological or epic story, represented with an incredible balance of black and white, light and shadow, and a typical Baroque dynamism. Antonio Tempesta, also known as Il Tempestino (Florence, 1555 - Rome, 1630), was an Italian painter and engraver of the early Baroque period. Antonio Tempesta trained in the culture of late Mannerism, with a naturalistic but also calligraphic taste, acquired from the frequentation of Giovanni Stradano, with whom he collaborated in the decoration of Palazzo Vecchio. Moving to Rome in 1573, he worked for Pope Gregory XIII, frescoing some maps of Rome in the Vatican, including the famous Map of Rome (1593). In the pontifical capital, he worked for many noble families and for important cardinals, such as Alessandro Farnese and Scipione Borghese. His works are in San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, at the villa in Caprarola, in Tivoli. He returned to Florence for a brief stay, where he collaborated with Alessandro Allori...

"Storia Naturelle delle Scimie", Milan 1810. Stipple engravings by Luigi Rados (1773-1840), after drawings by Nicolas Henri Jacob (1782-1871). Pres...

Orang Bicolore is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was publ...