File:Bound Print, L'Organiste Ambulant (The Itinerant Organist), Singeries ou différentes actions de la vie humaine représentées par des singes (Monkey Antics or Different Actions of Human Life Represented (CH 18250509).jpg

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English: Bound Print, L'Organiste Ambulant (The Itinerant Organist), Singeries ou différentes actions de la vie humaine représentées par des singes (Monkey Antics or Different Actions of Human Life Represented by Monkeys), ca. 1743   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Bound Print, L'Organiste Ambulant (The Itinerant Organist), Singeries ou différentes actions de la vie humaine représentées par des singes (Monkey Antics or Different Actions of Human Life Represented by Monkeys), ca. 1743
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English: Plate from a series of prints featuring monkeys acting as humans in various figural scenes. At left, a figure of a monkey in gentleman's costume (wearing feathered hat) riding another monkey walking on all fours. The seated monkey plays music on an organ attached to the walking monkey, whose mouth is connected to a pipe attached to the organ. Another monkey uses a bellows to blow air into the monkey's rear end to create the music.
Date circa 1743
date QS:P571,+1743-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium etching on paper
Dimensions 26 × 31.8 cm (10 1/4 × 12 1/2 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1921-6-319-23
Credit line Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
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  • Type: Bound print
  • Inscribed: Printed in plate, lower center: L'ORGANISTE AMBULANT.
  • Country: France
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