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3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
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- … view, which was translated into a vignette drawing, and then wood-engraved by R. Taylor; it …
- … Life and Letters ; Jeens’s image in turn was copied as a wood-engraved illustration in Sarah Bolton …
- … article in the same journal in April 1882. A coarser wood engraved version adorned Great Thoughts …
- … (DCP-LETT-13836F), accompanied by Rejlander’s photograph. Wood engraving in The Illustrated Review …
- … to the Subscribers to Nature no. 240 June 4 th 1874’. Wood engraving in The Graphic , XI:278 …
- … also in the Lindley Library, Royal Horticultural Society). Wood engraving on the front page and p. …
- … Famous Men of Science (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1889), wood engraving facing p. 347. Stephanie …
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…
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- … head from one of the Elliott and Fry photographs was wood engraved for Popular Science Monthly …
- … 1876. The Pictorial World of 6 June 1874 published a wood engraving which seems almost to …
- … in The Examiner on 11 October 1879. There was even a wood-engraved version in the lurid …
- … an oval vignette, issued by Elliott and Fry or John Murdoch. Wood engraving in Popular Science …
- … an article, ‘Darwin’, pp. 143-4 (DAR 140.1.9). Wood engraving in The Pictorial World (6 June …
- … in Le Journal Illustré of 14 May [1882?] (DAR 138.1). Wood engraving in Illustrated Police …
- … fecit’ in the Natural History Museum (NHM 1456469), and a wood-engraved vignette version illustrated …
2.10 Moritz Klinkicht, print from Legros
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< Back to Introduction This bold wood engraving is a copy of Legros’s bronze portrait medallion of Darwin (see separate entry), interpreting sculptural relief in terms of line and tone. It was executed by the German draughtsman and engraver Moritz…
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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- … Wolstenholme, Joseph (1) Wood, Charles (1) …
3.11 Edwards, in Illustrated London News
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< Back to Introduction A photograph of Darwin by Ernest Edwards, showing him in three-quarter view to the left, must have been taken at the same session as the profile published in Men of Eminence in 1866. The baggy sleeve of Darwin’s coat looks…
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4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire
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< Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum opus, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, in which he set out to explain the far-reaching significance of Darwin’s and Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theories. He…
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- … 1874-09-01 to 1874-09-11 medium and material wood engraving from a drawing by Nast …
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
4.35 Frederick Sem, caricature
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< Back to Introduction A caricature drawing of Darwin by Frederick Sem was one of a series of his portrait caricatures acquired by Queen Alexandra for her scrapbook or album, which has been preserved in the Royal Collection. Darwin is shown leaning…
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- … of the Day’ in various walks of life, or perhaps even the wood engravings from ‘cartoon portraits’ …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
4.39 'Moonshine' magazine cartoon
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< Back to Introduction Moonshine, the self-styled ‘Best Topical Comic Paper’ published in London, featured Darwin in its series of ‘Days with Celebrities’ in 1881. The idea of the series was to picture the private lives of famous contemporaries.…
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- … 1881-10-1 to 1881-10-29 medium and material wood engraving references and …
4.27 'Four founders of Darwinismus'
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< Back to Introduction In 1869-70 Darwin had declined to be photographed with Alfred Russel Wallace for a German publication, whose author had intended to show them as joint discoverers of natural selection. However, in 1873 he suffered a much…
4.43 'Illustrated London News' article
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< Back to Introduction In September 1887 the Illustrated London News reviewed G.T. Bettany’s popular biography of Darwin, and the reviewer took this opportunity to offer his own thoughts on the ‘domestic tranquillity’ and ‘unassuming modesty’ of…
4.11 'Fun' cartoon, 'A little lecture'
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< Back to Introduction ‘A little lecture by Professor D----n on the development of the horse’, a cartoon drawn by John Gordon Thomson for Fun magazine in July 1871, features ‘Professor’ Darwin addressing an audience of his ‘fellow monkeys’. His…
4.20 Frederick Waddy, caricature
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< Back to Introduction A series of portrait caricatures drawn by Frederick Waddy appeared in the journal Once a Week through 1872. It clearly emulated the more famous series in Vanity Fair, and indeed, Waddy’s drawing of Darwin has the same title or…
4.42 'Punch' Sambourne cartoon 3
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s last caricature of Darwin, ‘Man is But a Worm’, was published in Punch’s Almanac for 1882 on 6 December 1881, only four months before Darwin’s death. Like Sambourne’s ‘Punch’s Fancy Portraits. No. 54. Charles…
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- … 1881-11-01 to 1881-12-5 medium and material wood engraving from Sambourne’s drawing …
4.41 'Punch', Sambourne cartoon 2
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< Back to Introduction In October 1881, Darwin was included in Linley Sambourne’s series of ‘Punch’s Fancy Portraits’ of celebrities as No. 54. While the caption recurs to the old theme of Darwin’s views on human ancestry, the drawing contains a more…
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- … 1881-10-1 to 1881-10-21 medium and material wood engraving from Sambourne’s drawing …
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,…
4.34 'Punch', Sambourne cartoon 1
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s cartoon in Punch, a ‘Suggested Illustration’ for Darwin’s forthcoming book on The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1875) is another playful transformation of the author into an ape or monkey. However,…
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- … 1875-12-01 to 1875-12-10 medium and material wood engraving from a signed drawing by …
4.46 'Puck' cartoon 3
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< Back to Introduction In 1885 Darwin made yet another posthumous appearance in the New York satirical magazine Puck – again in a religious context. ‘SHEOL’ referred to the recently published Revised edition of the Bible, which modified the text of…
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- … Darwin’s proximity to the lovers emerging from the wood (who must be Dante’s damned adulterers, …
4.40 'Phrenological Magazine'
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< Back to Introduction Among the stranger uses of Rejlander’s photograph of Darwin (the very popular profile view) was as an illustration in Lorenzo Niles Fowler’s Phrenological Magazine of 1880; it accompanied an article titled ‘Charles Darwin – A…
