Orang Collection

Gran pops Shadow Show by Lawson Wood
Three little monkeys chuckle with glee as Gran pop, the orang utan character created by artist Lawson Wood entertains them with a shadow puppet show. Date: 1935

Going with a Swing
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing Gran pop the orang utan swinging on vines. Entitled Gran pop travels a la Carte

Granpop asks: Wheres George by Lawson Wood
Humorous bathtime scene by Lawson Wood showing his orange utan character, Granpop, searching unsuccessfully for George, a little monkey who is hiding under the tin bath. Date: 1934

Wheres Its Streamline? by Lawson Wood
Illustration by Lawson Wood featuring his creation, the wily orang-utan

For Healths Sake
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood showing two cheeky monkey pilfering fruit from a sleeping orang utan, Gran pop. Title is For Healths Sake Take Things Quietly

Business Keeps Going Up
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing Gran pop the orang utan having to saw a hole in the ceiling to accommodate his ever growing sales projection

A Swell Hand-Out
Comic illustration showing two naughty little monkeys in pyjamas tricking Father Christmas (Gran pop the orang utan) with a bottomless stocking. Date: 20th century

Orders of Mammals

Two orangutans with ice lollies Date: circa 1960s

Historical views of the Eastern Islands (Indonesia)

Wallaces Orang Utan
Pongo pygmaeus, bornean orangutan specimen. An Alfred Russel Wallace specimen

What Times High Water? by Lawson Wood
A little monkey looks beseechingly at Gran pop (the wily orang-utan created by artist Lawson Wood) as the rock they are seated on suddenly becomes less roomy with the rising tide. Date: 1932

A Sleepy Pear by Lawson Wood
A pair of adorable baby orang utans snuggle up together for a snooze under an orange blanket, a nibbled pear cast to one side. Date: 1932

Malaysia - Men of the Sakai tribe
These men of the Malaysian Northern Sakai tribe have built a scaffolding system enabling them to cut down a tall (and very wide!) tree at an easier higher level

Gran pops Cocktail Party by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration depicting Gran pop, the orang utan character created by Lawson Wood, who was a regular feature of The Sketch during the 1930s

Granpop does a bit of plumbing by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood depicting his orang utan character, Gran pop embarking on a bit of plumbing by trying to fashion a shower (perhaps)

Lawson Wood - Pre-War Gran pop?
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood showing a small monkey and the famous orang utan character called Granpop eating boiled eggs

The Higher the Fewer says Gran pop by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood showing his orang utan character, Gran pop sitting in precariously in a homemade hot air balloon. A little piglet falls out of the bottom of the basket

An orang utan (Pongo pygmaeus) kidnapping a young girl.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Ebenezer Siblys Universal System of Natural History, 1794

The Orang Utan or Wild Man of the Woods (Pongo pygmaeus) holding a stick.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Ebenezer Siblys Universal System of Natural History, 1794

Domesticated orang utan (female) wearing a striped bandana and carrying a bowl, Pongo pygmaeus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Ebenezer Siblys Universal System of Natural History, 1794

Ouran outang or Bornean Orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus

Orang utan, Pongo pygmaeus (endangered) and silvery gibbon, Hylobates moloch (endangered)

ORANG-UTANS - adult and young looking at reflection in mirror (Pongo pygmaeus)

Orang-Utans and Long-tailed / Crab-eating macaques (Macaca fascicularis) - came to feed together on feeding platform (Pongo pigmaeus). at Orang-Utan Sanctuary at Sepilok, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia; June

ORANG-UTAN - Mother kissing baby (Pongo pygmaeus)

ORANG-UTAN
(pongo pygmaeus) Date: circa 1860

Orang-Utan (Lydeker)
(pongo pygmaeus) Date: 1893

Self and Partners!, by Lawson Wood
Orang utan playing multiple hands in a game of cards. Date: 1930

Granpop rides the Cresta by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration featuring Granpop, the orang utan character created by Lawson Wood hurtling down a piste head-first on a toboggan, much to the bemusement of a small monkey and bear. Date: 1935

Granpop decorates his tree house by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration depicting Gran pop, the orang-utan character created by Lawson Wood, happily painting patterns on his new roof tree

Gran pops Nutcracker Suite by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood showing his orang utan character, Granpop, together with the help of some monkeys and a pig, attempting to crush a coconut with a homemade nutcracker. Date: 1934

Granpop Thinks more Juice is Required by Lawson Wood
Granpop, the orang utan character created by Lawson Wood enjoys a ride in a homemade, ramshackle carriage pulled by a sweltering little monkey on a bicycle

Granpop Makes Whoopee for the Royal Wedding
Lawson Woods own tribute to the 1934 royal wedding between Prince George, Duke of Kent and Princess Marina of Greece, showing his orang utan character

Granpop gives him an earful by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood showing Granpop (Lawson Woods wily orang-utan) throwing tomatoes at a thieving pig. Date: 1934

With Granpops best wishes by Lawson Wood
Humorous and rather sweet illustration by Lawson Wood showing his orang utan character Gran pop giving out Christmas presents to all his animal chums

Granpops Lodge of Instruction
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood showing his orang-utan character, Granpop together with a monkey and a pig attending a Freemasons meeting at a makeshift Lodge! 1934

Granpop Gets Down to Brass Tacks by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood featuring his orang utan character, Granpop, descending a ladder only to stand painfully on some brass tacks. His porcine companion seems to find this hilarious

Granpop Tests the Swimming Pool Water by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood depicting his creation Granpop, an orang-utan, testing a teacup of water before his animal friends launch themselves from a makeshift springboard

Granpop Does a Bit of Animal Grab by Lawson Wood
A game of cards between an Granpop, a pig and a monkey becomes rather fraught. Date: 1934

Orang-Outang Looks at US
An orang-outang looks through the mesh... Date: 1950s

An orang utan sitting on his perch in the zoo. By the fierce expression on his face he seems to be annoyed or upset about something

Orangutang
Study of an orangutang

Gran pops nose is put out of joint by Lawson Wood
Now that King Kong has appeared in London, this might happen to Gran pop (the wily orang utan created by artist, Lawson Wood) at any moment

as one lovely to another
Illustration by Lawson Wood showing a young orang-utan smiling at a newly-hatched Easter chick

Convalescence
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing a small monkey chewing an apple while looking after a convalescing Granpop the orang-utan

Granpop Floats a Company
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood showing Gran pop pushing off three anxious little monkeys on a log down a stream

At the Club
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood showing a club waitress eavesdropping on the gossip of two cigar and pipe smoking club members (monkeys essentially)

Stern Reproof
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing Gran pop the orang utan working as a delivery driver and dispatching a group of naughty fruit thieves

Gran pop Gets his Fly-Papers Ready
Gran pop Gets His Fly-papers ready orang utan and his monkey assistant making sticky flytraps

Gran pop a LA Carte
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood showing Gran pop the orang utan about to have a rather dangerous accident while driving a go-kart

Not Quite a Lady
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood showing Gran pop the orang utan reprimanding a cheeky young monkey who is making a face from the safety of her swing

Orang-Utan - 3
(pongo pygmaeus)

Orang Utan Pals
A pair of Orang Utans, one with its arm affectionately draped over the other, Chester Zoo, England

Orang-Utan (C17)
Early depictions of the Orang- utan tended to emphasise their human-like characteristics

Orang-Utan Dressed
(pongo pygmaeus) The orang was long considered to be the closest to humankind - this inmate of the London zoo has been dressed in human clothes by the Zoological Society

Orang-Utan (C18)
(pongo pygmaeus) 18th century savants considered the orang to be the closest to humankind : this one could almost be a species of homo erectus

Orang-Utan and Natives
An orang-utan defends itself against two hostile predators

Bewick / Orang-Utan
(Pongo pygmaeus) - 18th century naturalists - and the general public - were fascinated by this primate, so similar to us : Bewick names it the wild man of the woods

Boulton and Orang Utang
Combat of the Englishman Boulton with an orang utang in Borneo : but what Mr B. was doing there, and why he should wish to fight an orang, we do not know

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