Consul
Artist
Designer Unknown
Printer
Lith Adolph Friedländer, Hamburg
Germany
Datec. 1905
MediumStone Lithograph
Dimensions36 3/4 x 26 3/4 in. (93.3 x 67.9 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LinePoster House Permanent Collection
Object numberPH.346
Description"Consul" became a legacy name among performing apes in Great Britain, France, and the United States after the death of the original vaudevillian chimpanzee, known as "Consul the Great," in 1894. The original Consul had lived like a gentleman at the Belleville Zoological Gardens in England, wearing a suit, smoking a pipe, and observing regular mealtimes. This chimpanzee, elegantly dressed in a plaid suit, appears to be one of his distinguished heirs. Adolph Friedlander, whose name appears in the stamp at lower left, was one of the best-known German lithographers of his time. His printing firm produced more than nine thousand posters between 1872 and 1935, mainly promoting artists and performers of all kinds.On View
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