Photographs and Drawing of Charles Darwin

Photographs and drawings of Charles Darwin. Contains the following items:

Portrait photograph of Charles Darwin seated in three quarter profile, with his autograph. Photograph has been dated to 1880.

Portrait pencil drawing of Charles Darwin [undated].

Photograph of Darwin's study at Down, captioned "Where the Origin of Species was Written, Photographed in his Father's Life Time by Leonard Darwin".

Portrait photograph [daguerrotype] of Charles Darwin aged 32, with his eldest son, William Erasmus Darwin [1842].

Portrait photograph of Charles Darwin seated in three quarter profile, taken by Ernest Edwards of 20 Baker Street, London [undated].

Framed portrait photograph of Charles Darwin seated in three quarter profile, dated 22 February 1880.

1842

5 photographs plus 1 drawing The glass on the framed photograph is cracked.

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.