Description: |
Undated sepia photograph approximately 15 cm x 10.5 cm showing a profile view of a (white marble?) statue of Charles Darwin (in the Museum of Oxford?), bearded, bareheaded, wearing a cloak, looking slightly downward, standing with feet and hands crossed; above a (marine?) animal skeleton, on a plinth attached to the supporting column of an arch. Notes: Dates based on a letter from A. R. Wallace to Violet, 1896 (WP1/2/77) and note of reminiscences of J D Hooker, Nature, 22 Jun 1899, at http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin/texts/more_letters/mletters1_02.html |