Endless Forms Audio Guide
Created: | 2009-06-09 08:57 |
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Institution: | Fitzwilliam Museum |
Editors' group: | SMS Editors Group for "Fitzwilliam Museum" |
Description: | This collection contains video and audio versions of the Audio Guide for the Darwin Endless Forms Exhibition - an exhibition held at the Fitzwilliam Museum from 16 June - 4 October 2009 (http://www.darwinendlessforms.org/).
A tour of selected exhibits with commentary by the exhibition curators Jane Munro and Diana Donald. |
Media items
This collection contains 23 media items.
Media items
00 - Introduction

6,170 views
Introduction by Timothy Potts, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Wed 24 Jun 2009
01 - John Stevens Henslow, Teaching sheet with Arum maculatum (Lords and Ladies)

1,495 views
John Stevens Henslow, Teaching sheet with Arum maculatum (Lords and Ladies), undated (paper watermarked 1836), collage, pen and ink and watercolour. Department of Plant Sciences,...
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
02 - John Gould, Mockingbird from Charles Darwin (general editor), The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle

1,650 views
John Gould, Mockingbird from Charles Darwin (general editor), The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle, 1838-41, Part III, No.II, Birds, 1841, by John Gould, with hand-coloured...
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
03 - John Collier, Portrait of Charles Robert Darwin

1,314 views
John Collier, Portrait of Charles Robert Darwin, 1883, oil on canvas, 125.7 x 96.5 cm., National Portrait Gallery, London
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
04 - Thomas Cole, The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge, 1829

1,062 views
Thomas Cole, The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge, 1829, oil on canvas, 90.8 x 121.4 cm. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., Gift of Mrs Katie Dean in memory...
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
05 - William Dyce, Pegwell Bay, Kent – A Recollection of October 5th, 1858

1,954 views
William Dyce, Pegwell Bay, Kent – A Recollection of October 5th, 1858, 1858-60, oil on canvas, 63.5 x 88.9 cm., Tate, London. Purchased 1894
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Wed 24 Jun 2009
06 - George Baxter after Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, Untitled view of the Crystal Palace and Gardens at Sydenham

1,214 views
George Baxter after Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, Untitled view of the Crystal Palace and Gardens at Sydenham, ca. 1854, Baxter process colour print, 11.2 x 15.9 cm., British...
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
07 - Edwin Landseer, Morning, ca. 1853

818 views
Edwin Landseer, Morning, ca. 1853, oil on canvas, 142.2 x 261.6 cm., Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Henry P. McIlhenny collection in memory of Frances P. McIlhenny, 1986
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Wed 10 Jun 2009
08 - Hubert von Herkomer, On Strike, 1891

1,603 views
Hubert von Herkomer, On Strike, 1891, oil on canvas, 228 x 126.4 cm., Royal Academy of Arts, London
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Thu 11 Jun 2009
09 - Bruno Liljefors, The Mating of the Capercailzies, 1888

1,049 views
Bruno Liljefors, The Mating of the Capercailzies, 1888, oil on canvas, 147.5 x 203 cm., Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Wed 24 Jun 2009
10 - Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne, Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, Paris: Renouard, 1862

1,135 views
Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne, Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, Paris: Renouard, 1862. Darwin Library, Cambridge University Library (Darwin’s own copy)
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
11 - Edwin Landseer, Alexander and Diogenes, 1848

1,461 views
Edwin Landseer, Alexander and Diogenes, 1848, oil on canvas, 112.4 x 142.9 cm., Tate, London. Bequeathed by Jacob Bell 1859
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
12 - Emmanuel Frémiet, Gorilla (Troglodytes gorilla from Gabon) Abducting a Woman, 1887

1,842 views
Emmanuel Frémiet, Gorilla (Troglodytes gorilla from Gabon) Abducting a Woman, 1887, bronze, 45 x 60 x 40 cm., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
13 - Fernand Cormon, The Stone Age: Return from a Bear Hunt, 1884

1,339 views
Fernand Cormon, The Stone Age: Return from a Bear Hunt, 1884, oil on canvas, 146 x 190 cm., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassone
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
14 - Odilon Redon, Les Origines, Paris: Lemercier and cie, 1883

1,860 views
Odilon Redon, Les Origines, Paris: Lemercier and cie, 1883; series of lithographs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Lee M Friedman Fund
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Wed 24 Jun 2009
15 - Jacques-Phillipe Potteau, North African and Hindoo Bombay, from Darwin’s collection of anthropological photographs

709 views
Jacques-Phillipe Potteau, North African and Hindoo Bombay, from Darwin’s collection of anthropological photographs, drawn from a set made at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie,...
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
16 - John Gould, case of stuffed hummingbirds

1,091 views
John Gould, case of stuffed hummingbirds, with species in the genus Agyrtria, 60 x 70 cm (hexagonal), Courtesy of the Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
17 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Morning Music, 1864

1,125 views
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Morning Music, 1864, watercolour and bodycolour heightened with white, 30.4 x 27.3 cm., Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
18 - Argus pheasant feather

1,166 views
Argus pheasant feather
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
19 - Félicien Rops, Transformismes (Les Darwiniques), ca. 1879

1,278 views
Félicien Rops, Transformismes (Les Darwiniques), ca. 1879, no.1, etching, 12.7 x 16.5 cm., Musée provincial Félicien Rops, Namur
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009