Endless Forms Audio Guide

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Created: 2009-06-09 08:57
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Description: This collection contains video and audio versions of the Audio Guide for the Darwin Endless Forms Exhibition - an exhibition held at the Fitzwilliam Museum from 16 June - 4 October 2009 (http://www.darwinendlessforms.org/).

A tour of selected exhibits with commentary by the exhibition curators Jane Munro and Diana Donald.
 

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This collection contains 23 media items.

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00 - Introduction

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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)

   1,487 views

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

   1,643 views

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

   1,305 views

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

   1,054 views

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

   1,943 views

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

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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

   804 views

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

   1,593 views

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

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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

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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


11 - Edwin Landseer, Alexander and Diogenes, 1848

   1,450 views

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

   1,828 views

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


13 - Fernand Cormon, The Stone Age: Return from a Bear Hunt, 1884

   1,327 views

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


14 - Odilon Redon, Les Origines, Paris: Lemercier and cie, 1883

   1,848 views

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


15 - Jacques-Phillipe Potteau, North African and Hindoo Bombay, from Darwin’s collection of anthropological photographs

   702 views

Jacques-Phillipe Potteau, North African and Hindoo Bombay, from Darwin’s collection of anthropological photographs, drawn from a set made at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie,...

Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide

Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009


16 - John Gould, case of stuffed hummingbirds

   1,084 views

John Gould, case of stuffed hummingbirds, with species in the genus Agyrtria, 60 x 70 cm (hexagonal), Courtesy of the Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London

Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide

Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009


17 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Morning Music, 1864

   1,117 views

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Morning Music, 1864, watercolour and bodycolour heightened with white, 30.4 x 27.3 cm., Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide

Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009


18 - Argus pheasant feather

   1,160 views

Argus pheasant feather

Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide

Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009


19 - Félicien Rops, Transformismes (Les Darwiniques), ca. 1879

   1,269 views

Félicien Rops, Transformismes (Les Darwiniques), ca. 1879, no.1, etching, 12.7 x 16.5 cm., Musée provincial Félicien Rops, Namur

Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide

Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009


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