Today's post on the ever-intriguing Histories of Things to Come reminds us that this is Charles Darwin's birthday, thus reminding me that I had a couple of Darwinesqe items in the scan file just waiting to be posted. There's a relevant page on the Pictorial Arts Journal.
Viva la evolution!
cartoon from Mr. Punch's Almanack — 1882
A magnificent portrait of Mr. Darwin
3 comments:
Nice to see a Linley Sambourne illustration.
My favourite is the one he did of a hunt: a pack of cats chasing a rat, and the huntmaster as a booted cat, with voluminous whiskers, clutching whip and reins, astride a saddled & bridled pug just behind the pack....
Lovely stuff.
Let us not forget, his version of Evolution Theory lead to the gas chambers of Auschwitz; as well as spawning the Eugenics movement that has been media white washed as "choice"
D'artagnan is a perfect example of willful ignorance. What a shame.
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