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Pastel chalk drawing of Darwin by Samuel Laurence probably 1854 Henry Maull and [John] Fox A portrait by Maull & Fox, probably taken when Darwin was 45, which was used as the frontispiece of Francis Darwin's The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887), with the caption "From a Photograph (1854?) by Messrs. Maull. And Fox.
Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts. Cambridge, 2009. Gapps, Suzanne: "Charles Darwin as an Icon." Culture and Organization 12 (2006): 341–357. Janson, Horst W.: Apes and Ape Lore in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. London, 1952. Kemp, Martin: The Human Animal in Western Art and Science. Chicago und London, 2007.
Charles Robert Darwin (/ ˈ d ɑːr w ɪ n / [5] DAR-win; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, [6] widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
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Charles Darwin is the title of two oil on canvas portraits by English painter John Collier.The first is from 1881 and is held at the Linnean Society of London, while the second, and better known version, is from 1883, and is at the National Portrait Gallery, in London.
When Darwin was alive, he kept meticulous records of his library, including a 426-page handwritten “Catalogue of the Library of Charles Darwin” compiled in 1875. Initially after Darwin died ...
Environmental activists in the UK painted Charles Darwin’s grave in Westminster Abbey on Monday with the words “1.5 is dead,” referencing the critical climate threshold that the world ...
Insectivorous Plants is a book by British naturalist and evolutionary theory pioneer Charles Darwin, first published on 2 July 1875 in London. [1]Part of a series of works by Darwin related to his theory of natural selection, the book is a study of carnivorous plants with specific attention paid to the adaptations that allow them to live in difficult conditions. [1]