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1.13 Louisa Nash, drawing

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< Back to Introduction This sketch portrait of Darwin was drawn by Louisa A‘hmuty Nash as a memento of her friendship with the Darwin family and a token of her unbounded admiration and affection for Darwin himself.  She and her husband, the lawyer…

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  • This sketch portrait of Darwin was drawn by Louisa Ahmuty Nash as a memento of her friendship with
  • for Darwin himselfShe and her husband, the lawyer Wallis Nash, lived in the village of Downe in
  • charitable involvement in local community projects. A letter from Emma Darwin to Revd John Brodie
  • explained, ‘We have also a band of Hope under M rs Nashs superintendence’ – that is, a club for
  • that prompted the couple to emigrate to Oregon in 1878. In a letter to Wallis Nash deploring their
  • in at all the same degree as we do from our hearts M rs Nash and yourself’.  Louisa Nashs
  • that it hadnever been reproduced and is still in the Nash family’. He had acquired a photograph of
  • photograph, the latest known owner of the drawing was Louisa Nashs granddaughter, living in
  • physical location unknown, in the collection of a Nash descendant. Photograph in the National
  • originator of image Louisa Ahmuty Nash. SignedL.AhN’. 
 date of creation c.18731878
  • indian ink washes 
 references and bibliography letter from Emma Darwin to Revd. Innes, 24
  • editions), at Darwin Online: entry for Louisa Ahmuty Nash (her middle name is wrongly given as Ann) …
  • of Nashs drawing of Darwin, and the Registrars letter of thanks; both are kept in registered