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Sir George Howard Darwin – Antique Wall Art

Sir George Howard Darwin, 1913 Jan. — historic print
Sir George Howard Darwin, 1913 Jan.. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic print captures Sir George Howard Darwin in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Sir George Howard Darwin, the Cambridge astronomer and mathematician, is shown here in a halftone reproduction of a photoprint that appeared in *The Observatory* in January 1913. Darwin died in December 1912, so the portrait likely accompanied the journal's notices of his death. He was the second son of naturalist Charles Darwin and held the Plumian chair of astronomy at Cambridge, where his work on the tides and the Moon's orbit was widely respected. The record's caption details are unverified, but the image is a useful record of how a leading British scientist was presented to the astronomical community at the time.

Created / published1913 Jan.
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
NotesHalftone repro. of photoprint in The Observatory, 1913 Jan. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,030 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-156590

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