Drawing, 'Simia satyrus' by [Heinrich Tiedemann]
Reference number: PT/74/3/21
Date: 1836
Description
Plate 35, figure 1 showing an anatomical study of the upper surface of the brain of an orang [Simia satyrus; orangutan]. An outline draft of the same figure is visible verso. Inscribed with title, publication, and plate details. Not signed.
Subject: Eugenics / Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the brain of the negro [sic], compared with that of the European and the orang-outang' by Friedrich Tiedemann.
Received and read to the Royal Society on 9 June 1836.
- Reference number
- PT/74/3/21
- Earliest possible date
- 1836
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- Graphite on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Drawing
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XXIII. On the brain of the negro, compared with that of the European and the orang-outang External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1836
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1836.0025
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On the brain of the Negro, compared with that of the European and the ourang-outang External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1837
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0248
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Paper, 'On the brain of the negro [sic], compared with that of the European and the orang-outang [orangutan]' by Dr Frederick [Friedrich] Tiedemann
Creator: Friedrich Tiedemann Reference number: PT/22/5
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1834-1840
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 126
1835-1836 Reference number: PT/74/3
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Friedrich Tiedemann
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Dates: 1802 - 1865
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