'The pig-tailed monkey from the Island of Sumatra...' [Pig tailed macaque] Size:L: 80 x 60cm mace with spiked ball on

mace with spiked ball on a chain

Also showing crowds gathered on the street and looking out from windows at the event in Mark Lane

Disraeli says Shan't get out o' the way

Greenwich and would later act as an astronomer to James Cook's second and third Resolution expeditions

Dated in pencil 'Sweeps 198

'The pig-tailed monkey from the Island of Sumatra...' [Pig tailed macaque] Size:L: 80 x 60cm mace with spiked ball onZoological study of the Pig tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina), posed upright and holding a wooden staff. With a profile detail of the monkey's head. Plate 214 from chapter 4 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). The plate is inscribed very faintly: 'Published according to Act of Parliament January the first 1755 George. Edwards Delin: