The Affe mit Schädel (monkey with skull), is a famous work by the late-19th century German sculptor Hugo Rheinhold. The statuette is otherwise known as the "Affe einen Schädel betrachtend" (monkey viewing or contemplating a skull). It was first exhibited in 1893 at the Große Berliner Kunstaustellung (Great Berlin Art Exhibition). The Common Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is sitting atop a higgledy-piggledy pile of books and manuscripts. The subject is likely female, in the absence of any contradictory evidence. She has in her right forepaw a human skull, echoing the scene in Shakespeare's Hamlet where the Prince of Denmark bereaves Yorick ("Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him..."). She cradles her chin with her other forepaw in a contemplative posture. Her left foot holds the shin of her right leg as if to steady it or support the calipers held by her right foot. A spine of one of the closed books reads "Darwin". The book open at her feet and facing the viewer has a single inscription on the right hand page: "eritis sicut deus" from Genesis 3.5 when the serpent is enticing Eve to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden against the Lord's command, promising "And ye shall be as God [knowing good and evil]"), however the second half of this quote is missing, ripped from the lower half of the page.