!['Charles Robert Darwin', 1878
A photographic portrait of the scientist Charles Darwin [1809-1882] taken by Samuel Robert Lock [1822-1881] and George](https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/132/323/medium_1990_5036_6007_0020.jpg)
A Woodburytype entitled 'Charles Robert Darwin', taken by Lock and Whitfield in 1878. This Woodburytype is taken from a series of seven volumes entitled 'Men of Mark'. Published between 1876 and 1883, each volume featured 36 portraits of prominent men of the time.
A Woodburytype entitled 'Charles Robert Darwin', taken by Lock and Whitfield in 1878.
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) published 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life' in 1859 after developing his theories of evolution and natural selection.
This Woodburytype is taken from a series of seven volumes entitled 'Men of Mark'. Published between 1876 and 1883, each volume featured 36 portraits of prominent men of the time. A brief biographical essay by Thompson Cooper (1837-1904) accompanied each portrait.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Collection:
- Kodak Collection
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/6007/20
- type:
- photograph
- taxonomy:
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- visual and verbal communication
- credit:
- The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
- copyright:
- National Science and Media Museum
