N EW PRINTS.
THE Chimpanzee, who holds such numerously-attended levees in his little reception-room at the Zoological Gardens, has sat for his por- trait to Mr. WATERHOUSE HAWKINS ; who has painted and lithographed a very striking likeness of his monkeyship, in full costume. The gravity and shrewdness of the little man-monkey—who though but twenty months old looks the age of threescore years—are capitally preserved in the print ; and the peculiar conformation of the hands and feet is very distinctly shown. SCHARF has also made a sketch of the little fellow ; which, though slighter than that by Ilaweiss. gives a more complete representation of the animal, inasmuch as he is shown in three positions, including a back and front view without his Guernsey frock on. In the back view he looks like an ordinary ape or oran-outan, about to climb ; but in the front view he is ludicrously human, and the artist has given !Mu such a pensive air, that he might almost pass for an Esquimaux looking sentimental.
The Chimpanzee certainly treads more closely on the heels of hu- manity than any other of the oran-outan species. If not strictly speaking a biped, he is less than a quadruped : indeed his foot is half a hand.
Previous page
