Portraits

Life Dates: 12 December 1731–18 April 1802

Type: engraving

Notes: Engraving is after painting by Holl. B & B. Ancillary details have been cropped from scan to better show the botanist. Full scan upon request.

Life Dates: 12 December 1731–18 April 1802

Type: engraving

Notes: Published: J. Sewell. 32 Cornhill, 2 March 1795 in European Magazine.

Life Dates: 12 December 1731–18 April 1802

Type: engraving

Notes: Engraved by W. Bromley, from an Original Drawing. Published by J. Sewell. 32 Cornhill, 2 March 1795. European Magazine. This is a later, more worn engraving than port. #2. (G. Bridson)

Life Dates: 12 December 1731–18 April 1802

Type: engraving

Notes: Stipple engraving after painting by Rawlinson. Publisher: Dr. Thornton, London, 1 Feb. 1803. 2 copies (both trimmed); 48x33, 47x31.5. Dimensions of plate in R.F. Thornton's Sexual System of Linnaeus in HBL are 52x35.7 cm. 2 master negs: one with vignette and one without. Ancillary details have been cropped from scan to better show the botanist. Full scan upon request.

Life Dates: 12 December 1731–18 April 1802

Date Created/Published: 1770

Type: black and white print

Notes: Print is copy of original painting at the National Portrait Gallery, London (76 x 63.5 cm).

Life Dates: 12 December 1731–18 April 1802

Type: engraving

Notes: Engraving is frontispiece from a book and has with it a page titled: "Erasmo Darwin - Nato ad Elston Nella contea di Nottingham...." (12 x 9 1/4 inches). Ancillary details have been cropped from scan to better show the botanist. Full scan upon request.

Life Dates: 12 December 1731–18 April 1802

Notes: Messotint is after painting by J. Wright. I. R. Smith was the Mezzotint engraver to his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales. Published: I. R. Smith, London, 1 May 1797. Ancillary details have been cropped from scan to better show the botanist. Full scan upon request.

Life Dates: 12 December 1731–18 April 1802

Date Created/Published: ca. 1802

Type: black and white print

Notes: Print is copy of painting in the possession of the Erasmus Darwin School, Derby.

Life Dates: 12 December 1731–18 April 1802

Type: black and white print

Notes: Print is copy of sketch for portrait by James Rawlinson (portrait #7). Drawing is in possession of J. W. T. Moody, Esq..

Life Dates: 12 December 1731–18 April 1802

Type: engraving

Notes: Drawn by J. Thurston. Engraved by J. T. Wedgwood. From a Picture by Wright in the pofsefsion of Mrs. Darwin. London, July 1, 1820. Published by W. Walker, 8 Grays Inn Square. Painting by Wright (port. #4) is at the Nat'l Portrait Gallery, London.

Life Dates: 12 December 1731–18 April 1802

Type: glass lantern slide

Notes: Used for teaching purposes in class, “History of Botany – Biology & Its Makers”. Slide Company: New York Biological Supply Co., Inc. -Slide P-27. Published in Locy, Biology and its makers; New York, H. Holt and Company, 1915, p. 421 (HI # LA L819B 915). Print-out in folder.