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Orang Utan Collection

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: Drive Off The Missing Links, by Lawson Wood

Drive Off The Missing Links, by Lawson Wood
A colour illustration by artist Lawson Wood showing a orangutan using a little monkey as a golf tee. Date: 17th September 1930

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: Unappreciated! By Lawson Wood

Unappreciated! By Lawson Wood
Two bears teasing a orangutan with a toy monkey. Date: 1930

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: Wallaces Orang Utan

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

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: Pongo pygmaeus, orangutan

Pongo pygmaeus, orangutan
Portrait of a female orangutan, native to the Islands of Java, Sumatra and Borneo. Photographed by Frank Greenaway

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: Wallaces Orang Utan

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

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: Pongo pygmaeus, Orang utan

Pongo pygmaeus, Orang utan
This glorious orang utan was shot by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in the mid-1800s

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: The Anthropomorpha of Linnaeus

The Anthropomorpha of Linnaeus
An illustration by Bontius (1658) of early impressions of the Orangutan. The picture was published in Thomas Huxleys Evidence as to Mans Place in Nature (1883)

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: Pongo pygmaeus, orangutan and Gorilla gorilla, western goril

Pongo pygmaeus, orangutan and Gorilla gorilla, western goril

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: Pongo pygmaeus, bornean orangutan

Pongo pygmaeus, bornean orangutan
A specimen of Pongo pygmaeus, bornean orangutan

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: Pongo pygmaeus, orang-outang

Pongo pygmaeus, orang-outang
The muscles of the Pongo pygmaeus from Orang-Outang sive Homo Sylvestris: or, The Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with That of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man by Edward Tyson, 1699

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: Caged Orangutan

Caged Orangutan
A caged orangutan behind wire. Date: 1960s

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: Squashed Orangutan

Squashed Orangutan
An Orangutan with its face squashed against a window pane. Date: 1960s

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: Pensive Orangutan

Pensive Orangutan
A pensive Orangutan. Date: 1960s

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: With Granpops best wishes by Lawson Wood

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

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: An orang utan sitting on his perch

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

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: Orangutang

Orangutang
Study of an orangutang

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: Baby orangutan and owner - Singapore

Baby orangutan and owner - Singapore

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: An Orangutan

An Orangutan. Pastel sketch by Raymond Sheppard

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: Orang-Utan - 3

Orang-Utan - 3
(pongo pygmaeus)

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: Orang-Utan Dressed

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

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: Orang-Utan (C18)

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

Background imageOrang Utan Collection: Bewick / Orang-Utan

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


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