White-Handed Gibbon Illustration - Historical Engraving from Scientific Publication #3909160 (License: Personal Use)

This detailed black-and-white engraving depicts a white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar) in a dynamic arboreal pose, using its long arms to grasp a slender, leaf-sparse branch. The artist rendered fur texture through fine cross-hatching, emphasizing the species’ facial mask, dark pelage, and contrasting pale hands and feet. Below the image, the French caption “Gibbon aux mains blanches” identifies the subject, and “Pl. 10 bis” indicates its placement as a supplementary plate in a larger zoological work.

This image is typically used in educational, historical, or biodiversity-focused web content-such as museum archives, digital libraries, or primatology resources-to illustrate taxonomic descriptions or 19th-century natural history illustration practices. It serves users seeking visual documentation of gibbons, historical scientific art, or comparative anatomy references.