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Beagle Landing

Assembled scans from original 19th century sources:
• Print The Beagle Laid Ashore based on a drawing (1834-04-16) by Conrad Martens, etching published in: Francis Darwin, Life and Letters of Charles Darwin , p. 160, 1888. Conrad Martens' drawing has been engraved by T. Landseer and published in the year 1838 by H. Colburn in The Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of HMS Adventure and Beagle.
• Bellman, Banker and Beaver from illustrations by H. Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, 1876
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Götz Kluge said:

Beagle Laid Ashore (2)

BeagleLaidAshore
11 years ago ( translate )

Götz Kluge said:

Snark Hunting with the HMS Beagle
11 years ago ( translate )

Götz Kluge said:

There are some who identify the bearded bellman with Charles Darwin and the crew with the crew of Darwin’s ship Beagle. Martens’ 1934 etching of Darwin’s Beagle landing ashore (Fig 3 left) at the port of Santa Cruz in the Tenerite Island of the Canary islands, has been assembled (Fig 3 right, in modern terms it would be called morphing, I guess;) together with Henry Holiday’s illustration of bellman, banker and beaver that accompanied Caroll’s poem [...]. To be fair, Holiday may have just used Darwin as a model. Other similarities have been noticed, however, [...] between the drawing of a weed and Darwin’s sketch on the tree of life.
Source: caprarius-aquacorn.blogspot.de/2012/09/king-arthur-as-president-of-simple.html

No, not the Canary Islands. And it isn't morphing either. This is morphing: www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/25442963/in/album/375923
10 years ago
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