Fitzwilliam Museum
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00 - Introduction
Introduction by Timothy Potts, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Wed 24 Jun 2009
01 - John Stevens Henslow, Teaching sheet with Arum maculatum (Lords and Ladies)
John Stevens Henslow, Teaching sheet with Arum maculatum (Lords and Ladies), undated (paper watermarked 1836), collage, pen and ink and watercolour. Department of Plant Sciences,...
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
02 - John Gould, Mockingbird from Charles Darwin (general editor), The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle
John Gould, Mockingbird from Charles Darwin (general editor), The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle, 1838-41, Part III, No.II, Birds, 1841, by John Gould, with hand-coloured...
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
03 - John Collier, Portrait of Charles Robert Darwin
John Collier, Portrait of Charles Robert Darwin, 1883, oil on canvas, 125.7 x 96.5 cm., National Portrait Gallery, London
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
04 - Thomas Cole, The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge, 1829
Thomas Cole, The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge, 1829, oil on canvas, 90.8 x 121.4 cm. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., Gift of Mrs Katie Dean in memory...
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
05 - William Dyce, Pegwell Bay, Kent – A Recollection of October 5th, 1858
William Dyce, Pegwell Bay, Kent – A Recollection of October 5th, 1858, 1858-60, oil on canvas, 63.5 x 88.9 cm., Tate, London. Purchased 1894
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Wed 24 Jun 2009
06 - George Baxter after Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, Untitled view of the Crystal Palace and Gardens at Sydenham
George Baxter after Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, Untitled view of the Crystal Palace and Gardens at Sydenham, ca. 1854, Baxter process colour print, 11.2 x 15.9 cm., British...
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
07 - Edwin Landseer, Morning, ca. 1853
Edwin Landseer, Morning, ca. 1853, oil on canvas, 142.2 x 261.6 cm., Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Henry P. McIlhenny collection in memory of Frances P. McIlhenny, 1986
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Wed 10 Jun 2009
08 - Hubert von Herkomer, On Strike, 1891
Hubert von Herkomer, On Strike, 1891, oil on canvas, 228 x 126.4 cm., Royal Academy of Arts, London
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Thu 11 Jun 2009
09 - Bruno Liljefors, The Mating of the Capercailzies, 1888
Bruno Liljefors, The Mating of the Capercailzies, 1888, oil on canvas, 147.5 x 203 cm., Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Wed 24 Jun 2009
10 - Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne, Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, Paris: Renouard, 1862
Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne, Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, Paris: Renouard, 1862. Darwin Library, Cambridge University Library (Darwin’s own copy)
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
10. The Evolving Body: With Professor Randolph Nesse
Evolutionary physician Professor Randolph Nesse explores the idea of 'Darwin's eye', and discusses what evolution means for our bodies, our emotions and our behaviour - as well as...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 13 Jul 2009
11. Darwin, Design and Christianity: With Professor John Brooke
John Brooke, former Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University, gives his take on the exhibition 'Endless Forms', and discusses the implications of...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 13 Jul 2009
11 - Edwin Landseer, Alexander and Diogenes, 1848
Edwin Landseer, Alexander and Diogenes, 1848, oil on canvas, 112.4 x 142.9 cm., Tate, London. Bequeathed by Jacob Bell 1859
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
12 - Emmanuel Frémiet, Gorilla (Troglodytes gorilla from Gabon) Abducting a Woman, 1887
Emmanuel Frémiet, Gorilla (Troglodytes gorilla from Gabon) Abducting a Woman, 1887, bronze, 45 x 60 x 40 cm., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
12. From 'Missing Link Mania' to Creationism.com: 150 Years of Popular Darwinism in Europe
Why was the idea of 'the missing link' so wildly popular in the later nineteenth century? And why did Darwin's public image differ so greatly across Europe? Dr. Peter Kjaergaard...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 13 Jul 2009
13 - Fernand Cormon, The Stone Age: Return from a Bear Hunt, 1884
Fernand Cormon, The Stone Age: Return from a Bear Hunt, 1884, oil on canvas, 146 x 190 cm., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassone
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
13. The Predatory Ape: Sex, Simians and Society in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Dr. Gowan Dawson discusses the intriguing representation - and sexualisation - of apes in the nineteenth century, from pickled specimens on display to an eager public to images of...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Wed 29 Jul 2009
14. Evolving Images: Race and Popular Darwinism in Nineteenth-Century Photography
Professor Elizabeth Edwards explores how the emerging mass medium of photography engaged with popular Darwinian ideas in the nineteenth century, and how notions of race, 'type'...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 3 Aug 2009
14 - Odilon Redon, Les Origines, Paris: Lemercier and cie, 1883
Odilon Redon, Les Origines, Paris: Lemercier and cie, 1883; series of lithographs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Lee M Friedman Fund
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Wed 24 Jun 2009