Resource: The Complete Photographs of Darwin

[Michael Pritchard]

The 12 February is Darwin Day and The Complete Photographs of Darwin has been added to the The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. This provides a detailed catalogue of all known photographs of Darwin – a dozen newly discovered – and c.300 printed variants produced up to the early 20th century. It is online and illustrated with 400 images.

The catalogue is an updated version of the photograph section of the iconography of Darwin by John van Wyhe in Darwin: A Companion (2021).

The Complete Photographs of Darwin: http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/vanWyhe_Complete_Photographs_of_Darwin.html

Image; A F J Claudet, 1842. 

[Noorie]

I’d seen a book of Carte de Visit cards at an exhibition a few years ago; at the Salisbury Museum. I believe it contained a card of Charles Darwin. The book is likely in their archives; and I don’t believe still on public display. I live in what was the old Salisbury and Blackmore Museum; which opened in 1864. The Blackmore part held many anthropological items from worldwide countries. In a book called ‘Letters to Darwin’ his nephew wrote advising he visit the Blackmore museum. I’d love to know if he ever visited? And I’m wondering IF the card was acquired if he did.