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2.1 Thomas Woolner bust
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< Back to Introduction Thomas Woolner’s marble bust of Darwin was the first portrayal of him that reflected an important transition in his status in the later 1860s. In the 1840s–1850s Darwin had been esteemed within scientific circles as one among…
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- … < Back to Introduction Thomas Woolner’s marble bust of Darwin was the first portrayal …
- … friend Joseph Hooker who raised the idea of an approach to Woolner in 1863, intending to acquire a …
- … January 1864 Hooker told Darwin, ‘I am very anxious to get Woolner down [to Down] to take a clay …
- … chairs, does not suggest dynastic or social pretension; and Woolner’s portrayal of Darwin, …
- … it was the best of the sculpted portraits shown that year. Woolner’s busts were ‘full of character, …
- … to portraits of Socrates is interesting on many grounds. Thomas Huxley thought, as some others did, …
- … form of the ancient philosopher’s head. Similarly, Woolner has emphasised Darwin’s finely shaped …
- … the base ‘Charles Darwin’, and signed on the side ‘T. Woolner sc./ London 1869’. Woolner …
- … model for the bust was made. He was especially delighted by Woolner’s observation of the small lobe …
- … be a relic of pointed ears in mankind’s animal ancestor. Woolner’s drawing of it was reproduced and …
- … funeral in Westminster Abbey in 1882. A photograph of Woolner in his studio, c.1885, working on a …
- … nearby, next to one of Gladstone, indicating the value that Woolner attached to it; he later …
- … from William Couper, Francis did not recommend use of the Woolner bust. It was ‘never liked by us’, …
- … it’. There was indeed no move to disseminate versions of Woolner’s image beyond the family, although …
- … undocumented replica at Down. The Department also possesses Woolner’s bust of John Stevens Henslow, …
- … University of Cambridge originator of image Thomas Woolner date of creation …
- … Second Notice’, The Observer (8 May 1870), p. 6. Thomas Huxley, ‘Charles Darwin’, Nature , 25 …
- … vol. 3, pp. 105–106, 140. Frederick George Stephens, ‘Thomas Woolner R.A.’, Art Journal , new …
- … Cape, 2002), pp. 243, 273–274. Timothy Stevens, article on Woolner in the Oxford Dictionary of …
2.2 Thomas Woolner metal plaque
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< Back to Introduction In Benedict Read’s account of the work of Thomas Woolner in Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture, there is a reference to a ‘bronze medallion of Darwin . . . catalogued in Woolner’s studio in February 1913 (lot 123), which was presumably…
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- … In Benedict Read’s account of the work of Thomas Woolner in Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture , there is a …
- … which Charles Darwin provided for Wedgwoods in 1869’. Woolner had died in 1892, and it was …
- … by Allan Wyon. If so, this would indicate that it was Woolner who was employed, c. 1890, to produce …
- … of Darwin. This profile portrait differed slightly from Woolner’s original design for a medallion …
- … It is unlikely that the ‘bronze medallion’ sold from Woolner’s studio in 1913 is identifiable with a …
- … simply ‘DARWIN’. This latter is wholly distinct from Woolner’s characterisation of Darwin, and is in …
- … unknown originator of image Thomas Woolner date of creation …
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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- … William (2) Aitken, Thomas (1) …
- … Allen, John (1) Allen, Thomas (2) …
- … Bell, Robert (b) (2) Bell, Thomas (2) …
- … Birch, Samuel (5) Birkett, Thomas (1) …
- … Blow, T. B. (1) Blunt, Thomas (2) …
- … Brace, C. L. (5) Bradfield, Thomas (2) …
- … Brewer, T. M. (1) Bridges, Thomas (b) (2) …
- … British Museum (1) Brittain, Thomas (2) …
- … Burgers, T. F. (2) Burgess, Thomas (3) …
- … Anthony (2) Carlyle, Thomas (1) …
- … Church, G. (1) Churton, Thomas (1) …
- … Colvile, J. W. (1) Comber, Thomas (1) …
- … Auguste (2) Davidson, Thomas (6) …
- … Druce, G. C. (1) Druitt, Thomas (3) …
- … [–] von (1) Glover, Thomas (1) …
- … Grece, C. J. (2) Green, Thomas (1) …
- … Grey, George (3) Grey, Thomas de (1) …
- … Gurney, J. H. (1) Guthrie, Thomas (1) …
- … Howell, W. G. (1) Howie, Thomas (1) …
- … Hutton, Robert (2) Hutton, Thomas (1) …
- … William (1) Laxton, Thomas (3) …
- … Masters, William (3) Maston, Thomas (1) …
- … Frigyes (1) Meehan, Thomas (12) …
- … Society (5) Palmer, Thomas (1) …
- … Rimpau, Wilhelm (3) Rivers, Thomas (31) …
- … Salt, G. M. (3) Salt, Thomas (15) …
- … Scudder, S. H. (1) Seare, Thomas (1) …
- … T. A. B. (1) Spring Rice, Thomas (2) …
- … Wooler, W. A. (4) Woolner, Thomas (7) …
2.3 Wedgwood medallions
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< Back to Introduction Despite Darwin’s closeness to the Wedgwood family, he was studiously uninterested in the productions of his maternal grandfather Josiah Wedgwood I, the immensely successful ceramic manufacturer. In a letter to Hooker of January…
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- … Darwin, arranging for some casts of it to be taken by Woolner. Darwin’s lack of interest in this …
- … that it was Darwin himself who commissioned the sculptor Thomas Woolner to design a medallion …
- … As mentioned above, Hooker had actually been in touch with Woolner since 1863. However, it was …
- … Southampton home, dateable to 7 June 1869, he reported to Woolner, ‘The Medallion has come quite …
- … William was here referring to the successive stages in Woolner’s production of the medallion: the …
- … from it; and a clay relief cast from that mould, which Woolner had evidently sent to William. …
- … side view of it. Three ceramic medallions, all from this one Woolner design, still exist in the …
- … medallions accords well with the all’antica concept of Woolner’s bust of Darwin. At the same …
- … V&A Wedgwood collection originator of image Thomas Woolner date of …
- … (DCP-LETT-4452); 26 or 27 April 1864 (DCP-LETT-4472). Amy Woolner (ed.), Thomas Woolner, R.A., …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … (DAR 80: B120). The reference here is to the sculptor Thomas Woolner, and to his statue of Puck, the …
- … dream. Darwin obtained a sketch of a human ear from Woolner showing the unusual feature of a …
- … experience he described as ‘purgatory’ made lighter by Woolner’s ‘wonderfully pleasant’ manner, …
- … J. D. Hooker, 26 November [1868] ; this volume, letter to Thomas Woolner, 10 March [1870] ). …
- … from the zoologist St George Jackson Mivart. A protégé of Thomas Henry Huxley, Mivart had …
- … an honorary degree. Among the other candidates had been Thomas Huxley, who wrote to Darwin about the …
- … to the British Association for the Advancement of Science by Thomas Huxley, who had identified bits …
2.4 Wedgwood plaque
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< Back to Introduction Soon after Darwin’s death, a Wedgwood plaque in green jasper with a profile portrait of him was presented to Christ’s College, Cambridge, by his son George Darwin, who was himself a Cambridge don. It was set into the panelling…
Strange things sent to Darwin in the post
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Some of the stranger things Darwin received in the post can tell us a lot about how Darwin worked at home. In 1863, Darwin was very excited when the ornithologist Alfred Newton sent him a diseased, red-legged partridge foot with an enormous ball of clay…
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- … in the second edition of Descent of man based on Thomas Woolner’s sculpture with one of a …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … good wishes Mivart enclosed a copy of an article replying to Thomas Henry Huxley’s scathing review …
- … to dinner the following week together with the sculptor Thomas Woolner. The difficulty of getting …
- … 23 December 1872, CD note ), and he exclaimed to Thomas Huxley that he would like a society formed, …
- … a letter that rivals Darwin’s own in wit and warmth, and Thomas Huxley proudly signed himself, `One …
- … sought out old schoolfriends such as the ornithologist Thomas Campbell Eyton. Admiral Sulivan sent …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … Darwin began a long correspondence on orchids with Thomas Henry Farrer, permanent secretary to the …
- … in the ascendant. His great public defender in England, Thomas Henry Huxley, remarked on 12 …
- … ). Finally, Darwin was induced to pose for the sculptor Thomas Woolner, who had made likenesses of …
