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A Living Monkey, from Africa

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

July 14, 1808

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 32

Notes:

William E. Hũlings (1765-1839) was a Pennsylvanian who was appointed vice consul at the port of New Orleans in 1798. James Peale painted a miniature portrait of him in 1789. Madison Papers, Founders Online, National Archives / https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-01-02-0185 ;Theodore Bolton, Early American Portrait Painters in Miniature (New York, 1921)], p. 125

Specimen Type:

Living/Live (presumably eventually taxidermied/preserved)

Peale's Common Name:

Monkey

Current Common Name:

Monkey