Beschrijving Quatto Slinger-Aap Vosmaer 1768

Vosmaer, A. and Engraving by S. Fokke.

Natural History Suriname 1768 | Coloured engraving of monkey with 12 pages of text: Beschryving van eene zeldzaame Amerikaansche langstaartige aap-soort (…) genaamd Quatto (…) by de Hollanders bosch-duyvel of slinger-aap uit de Hollandsche Volksplanting Surinamen. Amsterdam, P. Meyer, 1768., 13 pp.

Name: Natural History Suriname 1768 | Coloured engraving of monkey with 12 pages of text: Beschryving van eene zeldzaame Amerikaansche langstaartige aap-soort (...) genaamd Quatto (...) by de Hollanders bosch-duyvel of slinger-aap uit de Hollandsche Volksplanting Surinamen. Amsterdam, P. Meyer, 1768., 13 pp.
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Full title: A. Vosmaer, Beschryving van eene zeldzaame Amerikaansche langstaartige aap-soort, by den inlander gewoonlyk genaamd Quatto en by de Hollanders Bosch-duivel of Slinger-aap: uit de Hollandsche volkplanting bewaard wordende in het museum van zyne doorluchtigste hoogheid den heere prinse van Oranje en Nassauw (Amsterdam, 1768). Contemporary coloured engraving of the monkey, total 27 x 21 cm, platemark 20,5 x 15 cm. Engraving made by S. Fokke after A. Schouwman. Text by A. Vosmaer, director of the Royal Natural and Art Cabinet (Directeur Vorstelijke Natuur- en Kunst-Kabinetten). Pages of the text still uncut. Very nice clean copy of Vosmaer’s original publication in Dutch.

Vosmaer’s private collection became the basis of the Stadholder Willem V’s (1748-1806) cabinet and menagerie. Vosmaer (1720-1799) devoted a lot of time to systematically organizing and describing the Stadholderly cabinet which was situated in The Hague. The menagerie of living animals was kept at the country house “Het kleine Loo”. From 1766 onward, Vosmaer started publishing detailed and illustrated descriptions of some of the exotic animals that were kept in the cabinet and the menagerie. Between 1766 and 1787 he published thirty-one such descriptions, and in 1804 two more pieces appeared posthumously. The 33 descriptions were then republished in one volume in the same year, under the title Regnum Animale. In 1776 Vosmaer described a quatto or “forest devil”. This red faced spider monkey had been part of the private menagerie of Mr. Bergmeier when alive.This treatise deals with the tropical South-American red-faced or Guiana spider monkey Ateles paniscus.

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Landwehr 204. F. Pieters 1980. Marieke Hendriksen, Animal Bodies between Wonder and Natural HIstory: Taxidermy in the Cabinet and Menagerie of Stadholder Willem V, 2022, Journal of Social History 2019.

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