A black man's brain compared with a chimpanzee brain. Lithograph by F. Robinson, 1865, after F. Tiedemann and after W. Vrolik and Schr. van der Kolk.

(W West imp)

1 print : lithograph ; 24.2 x 31.3 cm

Negro. Chimpanzee. F. Robinson lith W West imp

Wellcome Collection 39732i

"Fig. 1. Upper surface of the brain of a Negro : nat. size. From Tiedemann, 'On the brain of the Negro compared with that of the European and Orang-utan' (Philosophical Transactions, 1836, pl. 32). … Fig. 2. Upper surface of the brain of the Chimpanzee (Troglodytes niger): nat. size. From W. Vrolik and Schr. van der Kolk, 'Ontleedkundige nasparingen over de gedaante en het maaksel der hersenen van den Chimpanse' (Nieuwe Verhandlingen der erste Klasse van bet Koningl. Nederlandsche Instituut, &c. Amsterd. 4to) …" (Owen, op. cit. p. 54)