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DARWIN (CHARLES)
HAIG (AXEL HERMAN) "Darwin's study a week after his death", all framed and glazed; and another photographic portrait of Darwin (5)

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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DARWIN (CHARLES)

HAIG (AXEL HERMAN) "Darwin's study a week after his death", etching, signed "Axel H. Haig", with addition of title and note "The only proof in my possession. A.H.H." in pencil beneath image, image 280 x 360mm., [1882]--MAGUIRE (THOMAS HERBERT) Portrait of Charles Darwin, seated facing left, lithograph, mounted above a facsimile signature of Darwin on original card mount, spotting to mount, image 285 x 242mm., mount 475 x 355mm., [1849]--[TISSOT (JAMES JACQUES) Portrait of Charles Darwin [for "Vanity Fair", captioned "Natural Selection"], chromolithograph, cropped to size, image to view 310 x 188mm., [1871]--MAULL & FOX. Portrait of Charles Darwin in 1854, photogravure above facsimile signature, some spotting, 265 x 180mm., Maull & Fox, 1912, all framed and glazed; and another photographic portrait of Darwin (5)

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Provenance: R.B. Freeman; by descent to present owner.

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