Charles Darwin and Down House Gallery

Collier - Thomas Huxley J970174

DOWN HOUSE, Kent. "Thomas Huxley" by John COLLIER. Post conservation. Huxley defended Darwin so fiercely that he was known as Darwin's bulldog

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Darwin, Paintings, Victorian

Darwins study N970005

DOWN HOUSE, Luxted Road, Downe, Kent. Interior view of Charles Darwin's New Study. Darwin used this room as his study later in life. Now the ticket office and shop

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Darwin, Furniture

Down House, cupboard under the stairs J980016

DOWN HOUSE, Kent. Interior view. Items stored in the cupboard under the stairs. For many years Darwin was too reticent to publish his theory and so hid his papers in the cupboard under the stairs in an envelope marked Only to be opened in the event of my death

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Artefact, Darwin