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Conrad Martens
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Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting under the watercolourist Copley Fielding (1789–1855), who also briefly taught Ruskin. In 1833 he was on board the Hyacinth, headed for India, but en route in…
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- … Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied …
- … ’s original artist, had become seriously ill. Martens sailed on the Indus to Monte Video …
- … 's companion ship, the Adventure . In December 1834 Martens headed for Tahiti and Moorea, …
- … arrived in Australia in 1836, Darwin and FitzRoy visited Martens and both commissioned paintings. …
- … which he also sent Darwin a watercolour of Brisbane River. Martens stayed in Australia, becoming …
- … before dying from a heart attack on 21 August 1878. Conrad Martens' sketchbooks …
- … they are Sketchbook III and Sketchbook I Martens compiled four sketchbooks during …
- … plans, ‘where accuracy is often sacrificed to beauty’. Martens’s sketches suggest that both he and …
- … is Sketchbook III. This contains images sketched by Martens during his passage from England to South …
- … Monte Video in August 1833, it was not until November that Martens actually moved onboard the …
- … measures 150mm high by 240mm wide. It has sixty-four leaves. Martens made over sixty pencil sketches …
- … which dates from late January 1834. It remained in use after Martens’s association with the Beagle …
Interview with Emily Ballou
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Emily Ballou is a writer of novels and screenplays, and a prize-winning poet. Her book The Darwin Poems, which explores aspects of Darwin’s life and thoughts through the medium of poetry, was recently published by the University of Western Australia Press.…
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- … and stopped at Weatherboard. [He] had been told by Conrad Martens about this view, this …
Titus Coan
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In 1874, when Darwin was preparing the second edition of Descent of Man, he received letters from all over the world in reply to his queries about human behaviour; one in particular would have stirred up unexpected memories of his own time among the native…
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- … Library. The Library also has two sketchbooks of Conrad Martens , the official artist on the …
List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … Marston, Ann (1) Martens, Conrad (1) …
Darwin’s earthquakes
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Darwin experienced his first earthquake in 1834, but it was a few months later that he was really confronted with their power. Travelling north along the coast of Chile, Darwin and Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, were confronted with a series of…
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- … I have had ill luck however in only one little earthquake having happened Darwin to …
Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
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- … Letters | Selected Readings Darwin's first reflections on human progress were …
A voyage round the world
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Follow the story of the Beagle voyage through Darwin’s notes, books, letters, and specimens, now in the collections of Cambridge University. The text, captions, and images from the Darwin Bicentenary exhibition A voyage round the world, held in Cambridge…
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- … from two of the sketchbooks kept by the Beagle artist, Conrad Martens, and now in Cambridge …
Darwin and Human Nature
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There is substantial correspondence to illuminates Darwin’s published work on human evolution in Descent of Man and Expression of the Emotions. The letter sets and discussion questions presented here focus on nineteenth-century debates about the unity of…
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- … There is substantial correspondence to illuminates Darwin’s published work on human evolution in …
Charles Darwin: the Beagle letters
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This volume contains the complete texts of all the letters that the young naturalist Charles Darwin wrote and received while sailing round the world on the surveying ship the Beaglebetween 1831 and 1836. They start with letters written as a new and…
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- … sketchbook of Darwin’s Beagle companion, the artist Conrad Martens. The footnoting of the …
