Charles Darwin was not always an old, bald man with a long, white beard as is shown by the above detail of a watercolor portrait of the youthful Darwin painted a few years after his return to England at the end of the epic round-the-world voyage of HMS Beagle.

As the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth nears, The Granger Collection is proud to showcase a selection of our pictorial holdings on the English naturalist. Clicking on the above panels will take you on a tour showing some of what we can offer you on Darwin and his works in photographs, paintings, lithographs, engravings, and cartoons. In addition to the evolutionist himself, The Granger Collection also gives you easy and rapid access to illustrations of Darwin's family, many of his prominent champions as Thomas Henry Huxley and Charles Lyell, and such forceful opponents of evolutionary theory as 'Soapy' Sam Wilberforce and Adam Sedgwick.