'Pithecus satyrus' [Orangutan] moorland by Cromwell Mortimer

by Cromwell Mortimer

Chelsea Pensioner

This is a satire on the demand for scrutiny of votes by Charles Wray after the 1784 general election

blind to rear window

He was killed in 1938 when

'Pithecus satyrus' [Orangutan] moorland by Cromwell MortimerZoological study of an orang utan, possibly the Bornean orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus shown from the front, seated and indicating towards a half eaten fruit placed on the ground. A mountainous forest landscape is visible behind. Plate 2* from The natural history of monkeys, by Sir William Jardine (Edinburgh, 1833) The Naturalist's Library. Mammalia. Vol. 1. Referred to in the text as 'The red or asiatic orang utang'. The plate is inscribed: 'PLATE 2*.