Photographs Taken from Paintings of Members of the Darwin Family

Three cabinet card photographs of paintings of Darwin family members, made by Barrowclough Wright Bentley of Buxton:

Portrait of William Darwin, grandfather of Erasmus Darwin;

Portrait of Robert Darwin, father of Erasmus Darwin;

Portrait of Sir Francis Sacheverell Darwin, son of Erasmus Darwin.

Enclosed in an envelope from Graham's Art Studios, Royal Leamington Spa, annotated in Francis Galton's hand "Photographs taken from Pictures of my Ancestors The Darwins".

Mid 19th Century

1 envelope containing 3 photographs

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.