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DARWIN (CHARLES)
Photograph of Charles Darwin by Julia Margaret Cameron, signed by Darwin ("Ch. Darwin"), [Freshwater, Isle of Wight, August 1868]

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT

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DARWIN (CHARLES)

Photograph of Charles Darwin by Julia Margaret Cameron, signed by Darwin ("Ch. Darwin"), albumen print, mounted on carte-de-visite card, clear unfaded signature on mount in black ink, light dust-staining, small unobtrusive stain in upper background (c.10 x 15mm.), size of image 90 x 60mm., overall 101 x 63mm., [Freshwater, Isle of Wight, August 1868]

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SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF DARWIN TAKEN BY JULIA MARGARET CAMERON. Darwin said of this image 'I like this photograph very much better than any other which has been made of me' (see the facsimile inscription to be found on the reverse of other prints, cited by Julian Cox and Colin Ford, Julia Margaret Cameron, The Complete Photographs, 2003, no. 645; most positives, as here, being printed in reverse).

Darwin was something of a photography enthusiast: 'This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that Darwin undertook throughout his lifetime. His close friend and botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker would come to call Darwin's epistolary exchange of photographic images as his "carte correspondence". Hooker was jokingly lamenting his role as an intermediary for Darwin and his correspondents from around the globe in their exchange of carte-de-visites, or small photographic prints made in large numbers and printed on hard card for ease of exchange' ('Darwin's Photographic Portraits', Darwin Correspondence Project website). Darwin and his family spent six weeks at Freshwater in July and August 1868, renting a cottage from the Camerons and getting on famously with another of her visitors, Alfred Tennyson. Darwin was in fact one of the few sitters who paid for the privilege of being photographed: 'Darwin left the Isle of Wight having been entirely charmed with Cameron's renowned wit and her photographic camera. That week she made four exposures of Darwin, which lend extraordinary depth of tone and detail to Darwin's increasingly well-known beard and penetrating gaze' (ibid.).

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