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Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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- … Views of Evolutionary Theory, 1837-1874 . New Haven, USA: Yale University Press, 2010. …
2.9 Legros medallion, plaster model
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< Back to Introduction This plaster model for Legros’s bronze medallion of Darwin has an interesting provenance. It originally belonged to William Ernest Henley, the poet, journal editor and art critic, who was a close friend and associate of Legros.…
4.7 'Vanity Fair', caricature
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< Back to Introduction A letter to Darwin from his publisher John Murray of 10 May 1871 informed him, ‘Your portrait is earnestly desired – by the Editor of Vanity Fair. I hope Mr Darwin may consent to follow the example of Murchison – Bismark [sic] …
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- … Natural Science and the Visual Arts (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), p. viii. …
4.29 Richard Grant White, 'Fall of man'
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< Back to Introduction At about the same time as The Hornet pictured Darwin as ‘A Venerable Orang-Outang’, a novella by the American journalist and critic Richard Grant White offered a more scurrilous take on The Descent of Man. The Fall of Man: Or,…
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- … Natural Science and the Visual Arts (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. 253 …
4.13 'Fun' cartoon by Griset, 'Emotional'
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< Back to Introduction Ernest Griset’s drawing titled ‘Emotional!’ was published in Fun magazine on 23 November 1872, and is another skit referring to Darwin’s recently published Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. A hippopotamus had been…
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- … Natural Science and the Visual Arts (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. 81-99 …
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
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George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…
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- … George Eliot was the pen name of the celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She …
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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- … (Pevsner Architectural Guides), (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007), pp. 240–243. …
3.7 Leonard Darwin, photo on verandah
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< Back to Introduction Like the anonymous photograph of Darwin on horseback in front of Down House, Leonard Darwin’s photograph of him sitting in a wicker chair on the verandah was originally just a family memento. However, as Darwin’s high…
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- … Natural Science and the Visual Arts (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. 29-46 …
3.1 Antoine Claudet, daguerreotype
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< Back to Introduction This daguerreotype of Darwin with his firstborn child, William, was, according to a label on the glass, taken on 23 August 1842, just before the family moved from London to Down. It is generally attributed to the French…
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- … Natural Science and the Visual Arts (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. 33–34 …
Suggested reading
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Contemporary writing Anon., The English matron: A practical manual for young wives, (London, 1846). Anon., The English gentlewoman: A practical manual for young ladies on their entrance to society, (Third edition, London, 1846). Becker, L. E.…
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- … 2004). Gender, Sex and subordination in England , (Yale, 1995). Gianquitto, M., & …
1.4 Samuel Laurence drawing 1
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< Back to Introduction Samuel Laurence’s intimate chalk drawing of Darwin is dated 1853. It is likely that Darwin sat for the portrait at Down House, and Francis Darwin, in his catalogue of portraits of his father painted or drawn ‘from life’, noted…
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- … Natural Science and the Visual Arts (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 43. A …
1.11 Laura Russell, oil
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< Back to Introduction This little oil portrait of Darwin was painted by Laura Russell, daughter of Jules, vicomte de Peyronnet. She was married to Arthur Russell, MP for Tavistock; he was one of the sons of Lord William Russell, and his elder…
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- … Natural Science and the Visual Arts (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), half …
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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- … of England. Lancashire: North (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. 380–381. …
Portraits of Charles Darwin: a catalogue
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Compiled by Diana Donald The format of the catalogue Nineteenth-century portraits of Darwin are found in a very wide range of visual media. For the purposes of this catalogue, they have been divided into four broad categories, according to medium.…
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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- … Natural Science and the Visual Arts (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. 28–46 …
1.15 Albert Goodwin, watercolour
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< Back to Introduction In 1880 the watercolourist Albert Goodwin was apparently invited to Down to produce that rare thing – a portrait of Darwin with members of his family. As Henrietta Litchfield, Darwin’s daughter, explained when she reproduced it…
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- … Natural Science and the Visual Arts (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. 28–46 …
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … views of evolutionary theory, 1837–1874 . New Haven: Yale University Press. Young, Robert J. …
1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
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< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … Natural Science and the Visual Arts (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. 29–46 …
1.3 Thomas Herbert Maguire, lithograph
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< Back to Introduction This striking portrait of Darwin, dating from 1849, belonged to a series of about sixty lithographic portraits of naturalists and other scientists drawn by Thomas Herbert Maguire. They were successively commissioned over a…
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- … in the British Museum Department of Prints and Drawings, the Yale Center for British Art, the Royal …
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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- … Natural Science and the Visual Arts (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. 39–41 …
