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Plaster statue, painted to look like bronze, seated, by Sir Joseph Boehm, signed on back "Charles Darwin / E. Boehm fecit 1883". Exhibited at Christ's College in 1909: "Lent by Sir George H. Darwin, K.C.B., F.R.S. Study, about half-size, for the statue in the British Museum...Purchased at Sir Edgar Boehm's death by the Countess of Derby, and given by her daughter, the Lady Margaret Cecil, to Sir George H. Darwin, K.C.B." Now on display on the first floor landing at Down House, EH88202495. |
