'The St Jago monkey' [Green monkey] Size:M: 50 x 40cm It Amuses you

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including a couple on horseback passing a man with a donkey and a group round a barrow with a street seller approaching

North Circular Road

in the years 1772

To the Queen

'The St Jago monkey' [Green monkey] Size:M: 50 x 40cm It Amuses youZoological study of the Green monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus), a species introduced to St Jago in the Cape Verde Islands and used as an eighteenth century pet. The animal is depicted on a patch of greenery holding two pieces of fruit. Plate 215 from chapter 5 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). The plate is inscribed: 'Published