RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Cynopithecus niger of Celebes to be drawn by Wolf. CUL-DAR53.2.150. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
Wolf, Josef, 1820-99. German-born painter and illustrator of animals. W had a studio, together with Johann Baptist Zwecker, at 59 Berners Street, London. CD contacted W to draw animals for Expression. W also drew the orangutans in Wallace's Malay archipelago (1869). Letter to W and recollections of CD in A.H. Palmer, The life of Joseph Wolf, 1895, pp. 192-8 (F2087), transcribed in Darwin Online. Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021.
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Cynopithecus niger of Celebes to be drawn by Wolf [Fig. 16 and Fig. 17]
[Expression, p. 26: "Some of the photographs and drawings, namely, those by Mr. May, and those by Mr. Wolf of the Cynopithecus, were first reproduced by Mr. Cooper on wood by means of photography, and then engraved: by this means almost complete fidelity is ensured."]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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