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A monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Process print after J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers the younger.

A monkey surgeon prepares to treat a monkey patient with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, ca. 1660.

A sleeping pedlar's posterior is examined by monkeys, who play with his goods. Line engraving after P. van Harlingen after P. Bruegel, c. 1610.

Apes' skulls: six figures showing ape heads and an ape skull from the front and in profile. Line engraving, 1780/1800?.

Birds and animals in a neo-classical garden: ape, cassowary, pheasant, ostrich, swallow, peacocks and peahens. Etching by J. Griffier, ca. 1655, after F. Barlow.

A monkey holding a clyster in an apothecary's shop. Engraving by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.

Apes playing with a goldsmith's apparatus. Engraving by Nicolaes de Bruyn, ca 1621.

An ape in military attire, sitting astride a hog, confronts a baboon, also in military attire, who sits astride a bear. Engraving by F. Barlow, ca. 1679/1680.

A barber-surgeon's house, where monkeys shave cats and let blood. Line engraving, c. 1660, after D. Teniers II.

Five apes: orangutan, Barbary ape, baboon, leonine monkey and varied monkey. Etching by J. Scott, ca. 1808.

A man dressed in macaroni-style with a high head-dress meets a monkey dressed in the same style. Mezzotint, 1774.

A monkey patient being treated by a monkey surgeon with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, c. 1660.

Two chimpanzees sheltering in trees. Wood engraving by J.W. Whymper after J. Wolf.

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A monkey holding a clyster in an apothecary's shop. Engraving by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.

A man dressed in macaroni-style with a high head-dress meets a monkey dressed in the same style. Mezzotint, 1774.

A monkey patient being treated by a monkey surgeon with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, c. 1660.

A sleeping pedlar's posterior is examined by monkeys, who play with his goods. Line engraving after P. van Harlingen after P. Bruegel, c. 1610.

Two chimpanzees sheltering in trees. Wood engraving by J.W. Whymper after J. Wolf.