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3.14 Julia Margaret Cameron, photos
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< Back to Introduction In the summer of 1868 Darwin took a holiday on the Isle of Wight with his immediate family, his brother Erasmus, and his friend Joseph Hooker. The family’s accommodation at Freshwater was rented from the photographer Julia…
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- … < Back to Introduction In the summer of 1868 Darwin took a holiday on the Isle of …
- … Freshwater was rented from the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, who seized this opportunity to …
- … address for its forthcoming conference at Norwich. Cameron, never shy of publicity, may have …
- … and elsewhere, or mounted in albums that were presented to Cameron’s well-connected friends – …
- … The distaste of the professional photographic lobby for Cameron’s unorthodox, ‘out of focus’ …
- … and His Friends (1893), an anthology of photogravures from Cameron’s portraits that included the …
- … milieu. Nevertheless, the family must have foreseen that Cameron’s portrayals of him would turn out …
- … focus images were ‘more artistically beautiful’. In Cameron’s photographs the head was strongly …
- … of the four or five known photographs of Darwin which Cameron took in the summer of 1868. However, …
- … translucent truthfulness’. This impression was captured by Cameron with great skill: in fact, her …
- … declared enemy of obscurantism. Surprisingly, Cameron herself thought that it was ‘Not a …
- … by the fact that, in ‘Annals of My Glass House’, Cameron puts almost the same form of words into the …
- … Joshua Reynolds’s picture of Dr Johnson discoursing; and Cameron’s emphasis on Darwin’s domed skull …
- … a marker of high intelligence. Relations between Cameron and the Darwin family continued to …
- … been pleased with her. Darwin wrote to Hooker in August 1868, ‘How about Photographs? Can you …
- … of August, ‘I have between £8 & £9 to hand over to Mrs. Cameron for sale of photographs, cheifly …
- … far too big for travellers to carry away.’ The prints from Cameron’s photographs in fact generally …
- … tonal subtlety of the original; as Darwin complained in a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace, the image …
- … Cameron date of creation July – August 1868 computer-readable date …
- … 2, pp. 442–468. Darwin’s letters to Hooker, 17 [Aug. 1868] and 23 Aug. [1868] (DCP-LETT-6321 and …
- … (undated) accessible via lucerna.exeter.ac.uk, ID 5140671. J. van Wyhe, ‘Iconography’, pp. 167–169. …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
- … The quantity of his correspondence increased dramatically in 1868; the increase was due largely to …
- … in satisfying female preference in the mating process. In a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace in 1864, …
- … of changing the races of man’ (Correspondence vol. 12, letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] ). …
- … and his immediate circle of friends and relations. In July 1868 Darwin was still anticipating that …
- … as well say, he would drink a little and not too much’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 15 May [1868] ) …
- … as early as 1865, the two-volume work appeared in January 1868. A final delay caused by the indexing …
- … would be a great loss to the Book’. But Darwin’s angry letter to Murray crossed one from Dallas to …
- … of labour to remuneration I shall look rather blank’ ( letter from W. S. Dallas, 8 January 1868 ). …
- … if I try to read a few pages feel fairly nauseated’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 February [1868] ). …
- … was clearly impressed by Lewes’s reviews. On 7 August 1868 , he wrote him a lengthy letter from …
- … would strike me in the face, but not behind my back’ ( letter to John Murray, 25 February [1868] ) …
- … a scamp & I begin to think a veritable ass’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868] ). …
- … . The letter was addressed to ‘the Rev d C. Darwin M.d’; Binstead evidently assumed Darwin to be …
- … information on colour changes in the canary (letters from J. J. Weir, [26] March 1868 and 3 …
- … added, ‘for it is clear that I have none’ ( letter to J. J. Weir, 30 May [1868] ). Sexual …
- … role of colour, sound, and smell in attracting females. J. J. Weir reported on 14 April 1868 …
- … of Hooker’s distributed it in Japan ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 September 1868 ); Edward Wilson, …
- … of her two-month old daughter Katherine ( letter from C. M. Hawkshaw to Emma Darwin, 9 February …
- … host, his usually phlegmatic brother Erasmus exclaimed, ‘M rs Cameron there are six people in …
