Charles Robert Darwin. Etching by P.A. Rajon, ca. 1877, after W.W. Ouless, 1875.

1875

1 print : etching

W.W. Ouless A.R.A. pt. ; Rajon aq. fort. ; Ch. Darwin In this state, the names of the painter and etcher have been added to left and right of the lower border, and an etched facsimile of Darwin's signature has been added lower right. The remarque heads in the previous state have been deleted

State III.

Henri Béraldi, Les graveurs du XIXe siècle: guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes, vol. XI, Paris 1891, p. 165, no. 147 ("Portrait capital, dont les épreuves de choix se vendent de 500 a 1200 francs. Les premières épreuves ont, comme d'usage, des remarques sur les marges")

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 764.5

Janet Browne, 'Looking at Darwin: portraits and the making of an icon', Isis, 2009, 100: 542-570 (pp. 542-543)

Wellcome Collection 9895i

The original painting belonged to the Darwin family and is at Darwin College Cambridge; a second version by Ouless belongs to Christ's College, Cambridge