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Titian Ramsay Peale, Tartarian Monkey, watercolor, American Philosophical Society (Object identifier: graphics:616) / https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/object/graphics:616IMAGE INFORMATION

Tartarian Monkey, one of the largest of the monkey tribe (living, and very docile)

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

August 28, 1821

Primary Source Reference:

National Gazette and Literary Register (Philadelphia), 28 Aug 1821

Notes:

Titian Ramsay Peale's watercolor of the baboon, pictured here, was presumably made from the Museum's specimen.

Specimen Type:

Live/living (presumably eventually taxidermied/preserved)

Current Common Name:

Hamadryas baboon

Current Scientific Name

Papio hamadryas