Darwin, Charles
Photographic portrait
£580
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Woodburytype, showing Darwin in old age, in a heavy coat, facing right, trimmed to image, 10.3 x 6.3cm, window-mounted, in 19th-century oblong folio album, Darwin's photograph on leaf with similar portraits of Matthew Arnold, Richard Owen (biologist, 1804-1892), and John Lubbock (1834-1913, polymath), the album containing approx. 130 further photographs, mainly cartes de visite and cabinet card albumen-print photographic portraits by Lancashire studios including J. Frankland of Blackburn, one cabinet card portrait by J. Henry Hoff of Kendal showing a man in eastern dress with manuscript caption ‘Rev. W. Swailes, C[hurch] M[ission] S[ociety], Dera Ismail Khan’, covers and spine detached