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Darwin Correspondence Project

2.20 Montford, terracotta bust, NPG

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Horace Montford presented this terracotta bust of Darwin to the National Portrait Gallery in January 1905. He explained that it was the model for the bronze busts commissioned by Andrew Carnegie in 1901, one of which is now in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.  

  • physical location National Portrait Gallery, London 

  • accession or collection number NPG 1395 

  • copyright holder National Portrait Gallery 

  • originator of image Horace Montford 

  • date of creation c. 1901 

  • computer-readable date 1901-01-01 to 1901-12-31 

  • medium and material terracotta 

  • references and bibliography David Saywell and Jacob Simon, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, National Portrait Gallery (London: National Portrait Gallery, 2004) 


 

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