'Young Rhesus Monkey' mb-artist Domenico_di_Michelino John Gilpin about to mount

John Gilpin about to mount his horse in Cheapside

Scene on Westminster Bridge with figures and a horse-drawn carriage

With two smaller barges

here termed 'oxygenized carbon'

'Young Rhesus Monkey' mb-artist Domenico_di_Michelino John Gilpin about to mountZoological study of the rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta), native to south and southeast Asia. Depicted in a collar and chain, the animal has its arms extended. There is a house and forest landscape behind with mountains in the far distance. Illustration from the title page of The natural history of monkeys, by Sir William Jardine (Edinburgh, 1833) The Naturalist's Library. Mammalia. Vol. 1. The plate is inscribed: 'Young Rhesus Monkey. Lizars sc.'