3-082-254 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Facsimile of "Tiny," the late Mr. Frank Buckland's monkey, 1895. Reproduced from "The Naturalists' Library," by Sir William Jardine, (1833). 'The very last of the late Frank Buckland's pets died last week. It was a specimen of Cerocopithecus mona, and had been under the tender care of Mrs. Buckland for over seventeen years. It was one of a group of the happy family menagerie in the well-known house in Albany Street where poor Buckland died on Dec. 19, 1880. "Tiny"...was a very beautiful animal, with a thick coat of handsomely shaded hair. She was also one of the most mischievous monkeys that ever lived. Many a time have I seen her scampering about "the monkey-room," as the master's studio was irreverently called by the servants - "Darwin going backwards," as Buckland used laughingly to say...When let out of their cages the monkeys had a fine time of it, carrying on all sorts of pranks, and, unfortunately, too, destruction wherever they went...Although so pretty a little creature, Tiny was never photographed. Through the kindness of Mrs. Buckland I am enabled, however, to send you an illustration which was considered by Buckland himself to be a very good likeness of Tiny'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.