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3.10 Ernest Edwards, 'Men of Eminence'

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< Back to Introduction In 1865 Darwin was invited to feature in another series of published photographs, Portraits of Men of Eminence in Literature, Science and Art, with Biographical Memoirs . . . The Photographs from Life by Ernest Edwards, B.A.…

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  • … Down House MSS) indicates that on 2 March 1866 he made a payment of £1 for ‘E. Edwards Photo’, but …
  • … nature of Darwin’s theories, already treated him as a thinker of unassailable integrity and …
  • … was characteristic of him. This image was also issued as a ‘carte de visite’, a copy of which …
  • … wan and plain-featured in these new images, partly as a result of his chronic ill health in the …
  • … to Darwin’s family. His brother Erasmus – always a careful custodian of Charles’s public image – …
  • … [initial] them on the back’. However, he had evidently had a preview, and added, ‘My present …
  • … which was rejected on Erasmus’s advice? In either case, a profile shot may have seemed the least …
  • … terms, and in 1872, Darwin even provided Edwards with a testimonial endorsing his ‘heliotype’ …
  • … of 1909 did not include any of them, except in the form of a wood engraving (uncredited) in the …
  • … (see separate catalogue entry). Once again, the products of a commercial studio appeared less …
  • … print 
 references and bibliography Letter from Darwin to Edward Walford, 22 [Jan. – April …
  • … 5 (1866), ‘Charles Robert Darwin’, pp. 49–52. Draft of a letter from Darwin to Edwards, commending …
  • … Charles Francis Horne (ed.), Great Men and Famous Women. A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of …
  • … Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), …

2.23 Hope Pinker statue, Oxford Museum

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< Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed in the Oxford University Museum on 14 June 1899. It was the latest in a series of statues of great scientific thinkers, the ‘Founders and Improvers of Natural…

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  • … mimicry among insects. Alfred Russel Wallace, in a letter to his daughter dated 27 November 1896, …
  • … they were ‘quite common place without being vulgar’. A letter in the Hope Pinker collection of …
  • … in Caen limestone 
 references and bibliography Letter from William Darwin to his father …
  • … (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press}, vol. 26. Undated letter from ‘Waller’ to Hope Pinker, …
  • … of letters, Royal Academy archive, HRHP/LPM/UVW31). Undated letter from H.E. Luxmoore of Eton …
  • … the Natural History Museum in London, in 1895, about use of a photograph of Boehm’s statue of Darwin …
  • … Selection (London, Paris, Melbourne: Cassell, 1896). Letter from Poulton to Acland, 25 Nov. 1896, …
  • … 2, 1897 ), proof copy, OUM archive, Box 1, HM 1874–1902. Letter, dated ‘Oxford, Dec. 10’ [c. 1896 …
  • … 25 May 1899, OUM archive, Box 1, 1.7. ‘Presentation of a Darwin statue to Oxford University: address …
  • … Science and the Architecture of Display (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), pp. 62 …