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.

  • Barlow, Francis, 1622-1704.
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[1679/1680]
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575169i
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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. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The animals are assisted by two further apes by their sides. A woodcock and an owl mark the battle with the sound of their horns

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[London] (att ye black boy, St Dunstans church in Fleete Streete) : Christopher Wilkinson ; [London] (at ye raven against Bedford House in ye Strand) : Marke Pardo, [1679/1680]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; platemark 26.4 x 32.4 cm

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The brutish combatants ... they then repent that e'are they did ingage. sc.

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Not found in: British Museum Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1870-1954

Reference

Wellcome Collection 575169i

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Attribution to Barlow from the related signed drawing in the Ashmolean Museum (Stainton and White, Drawing in England, no. 110)

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