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4.54 jubilees of Queen Victoria
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< Back to Introduction The golden and diamond jubilees of Queen Victoria’s reign in 1887 and 1897 prompted many pictorial commemorations, which often vaunted the national achievements that had occurred during her reign. A colour lithograph drawn by…
2.24 Herbert Hampton statue, Lancaster
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< Back to Introduction The monument to Queen Victoria in Dalton Square, Lancaster, is one of many late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century public projects that featured Darwin among the great men of history – often, as here, in the context of…
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- … < Back to Introduction The monument to Queen Victoria in Dalton Square, Lancaster, is …
- … the context of patriotic celebration of the achievements of Victoria’s reign. It was commissioned …
- … Town Hall on Dalton Square, which is contemporary with the Victoria Memorial, and the two structures …
- … town by Lord Ashton A.D. 1906’. The monument to Victoria is in Portland stone, richly …
- … ‘Wisdom’ and ‘Freedom’ as the virtues of Victoria’s Britain. Between them, on the sides of the …
3.19 Elliott and Fry photos c.1880-1
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< Back to Introduction In addition to Elliott and Fry’s photographs showing an old and enfeebled Darwin on the verandah of Down House, there are at least two other images of him created by the same firm at this period of his life - perhaps even on…
Schools Gallery: Using Darwin’s letters in the classroom
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English| History| Science English Pupils in Cumbria lead the way Year 9 English pupils at Ulverston Victoria High School spent several weeks studying Darwin’s letters, including comparing sections from Darwin’s ‘Voyage of the Beagle’ to letters…
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- … lead the way Year 9 English pupils at Ulverston Victoria High School spent several weeks …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … forwarded by Smyth Gippsland, Victoria Aborigines …
- … forwarded by Smyth Wellington Gippsland Victoria Aborigines …
- … forwarded by Smyth Belfast, Victoria Aborigines Lang, …
- … forwarded by Smyth Coranderik Victoria aborigines …
- … O.G. [1871] Victoria Street, London, England? …
- … Hayes, Bromley, Kent, England (about Victoria Australia) encloses photo …
- … 12 Nov 1867 Longerenong, Wimmera, Victoria, Australia …
2.25 Henry Pegram statue, Birmingham
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< Back to Introduction Among the many posthumous commemorations of Darwin as one of the ‘great men of history’, there is a striking statue of him on the façade of the University of Birmingham. When the former Mason Science College developed into a…
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- … Aston Webb and Edward Ingress Bell, who had designed the Victoria Law Courts in Birmingham, the main …
2.8 Alphonse Legros medallion
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< Back to Introduction The painter, printmaker and sculptor Alphonse Legros created this bronze medallion with a profile portrait of Darwin in 1881, shortly before the latter’s death. According to a friend of Legros, the writer Thomas Okey, it was…
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- … British Historical Medals, 1837–1901: The Reign of Queen Victoria , 3 vols, vol. 2 (London: Seaby, …
2.12 Allan Wyon, Royal Society medal
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< Back to Introduction The Darwin medal of the Royal Society was awarded on a biennial basis from 1890 onwards, as a way of recognising individual achievement in the scientific fields to which Darwin himself had contributed. The first scientist to be…
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- … British Historical Medals, 1837–1901: The Reign of Queen Victoria (London: Seaby, 1987), vol. 2, p …
4.55 Harry Furniss caricature
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< Back to Introduction Harry Furniss’s caricature of Darwin is in a set of seventy-two pen and ink drawings by this artist now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. They were acquired in 1947-8 from Theodore Cluse, who, acting…
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- … Furniss [grandson of the artist], Family and Friends (Victoria, Canada: Trafford, 2003), pp. 67f …
Vivisection: first sketch of the bill
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Strictly Confidential Mem: This print is only a first sketch. It is being now recast with a new & more simple form – but the substance of the proposed measure may be equally well seen in this draft. R.B.L. | 2 586 Darwin and vivisection …
4.12 'Fun', Wedding procession
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< Back to Introduction ‘The wedding procession’ appeared in Fun magazine on March 25, 1871, and contained an amusing echo of the cartoon representing Darwin as ‘A venerable orang-outang’ that had appeared in the Hornet a few days earlier. The…
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- … skit on the marriage of Princess Louise, a daughter of Queen Victoria, to the Marquis of Lorne, soon …
2.5 Wedgwood medallions, 2nd type
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< Back to Introduction Two identical oval medallions in green jasper in the Wedgwood Museum, portraying Darwin’s head in profile, are different from the rest. The portrayal was apparently taken not from Woolner’s model of 1869, but from the Royal…
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- … Wedgwood firm itself. physical location Victoria & Albert Museum (Wedgwood …
Echuaca, Australia
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'Under daily observation'
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- … is forwarded from the Deputy sherriff of Echuca, Victoria. …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … College, London, and physician-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria. Jenner prescribed a variety of …
2.26 Linnean Society medal
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< Back to Introduction In 1908 the Linnean Society celebrated the jubilee of ‘the greatest event’ in its whole history, which had occurred on 1 July 1858: the presentation by Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker of papers by Darwin and Alfred Russel…
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- … by Wyon in the Royal Society medal. An undated plaque in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Wedgwood …
Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
2.16 Horace Montford statue, Shrewsbury
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< Back to Introduction Horace Montford’s statue of Darwin, installed in his birthplace, Shrewsbury, in 1897, is one of the finest of the commemorative portrayals of him. Up to that time, the only memorial to Darwin in the town was a wall tablet of…
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- … during the sixty years of Her Majesty’s reign’. Victoria’s diamond jubilee in 1897 was celebrated in …
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…
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- … Christ’s College, Cambridge. Other casts are in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Wedgwood collection, …
4.18 'Figaro' chromolithograph 1
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< Back to Introduction In a cartoon of 1874 by Figaro’s French-born artist Faustin Betbeder (known as Faustin), Darwin holds up a mirror reflecting himself and the startled ape sitting beside him. Their hairy bodies, seen against a background of palm…
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- … San Marino, California. There is also an impression in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Prints and …
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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- … at an earlier period. physical location Victoria and Albert Museum (Wedgwood …
