The Expression of The Emotions in Man and Animals - Illustrations

Illustrations

It was one of the first books with photographs - with seven heliotype plates - and the publisher John Murray warned that this "would poke a terrible hole in the profits".

The published book assembled illustrations rather like a Victorian family album, with engravings of the Darwin family's domestic pets by the zoological illustrator T. W. Wood, Mr. Riviere and Mr. A. May, portraits by the Swedish photographer Oscar Rejlander (1813–1875), anatomical diagrams by Sir Charles Bell (1774–1842) and Friedrich Henle (1809–1885), and illustrational quotations from the Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine - Analyse Electro-Physiologique de L'Expression des Passions (1862) by the French neurologist Guillaume-Benjamin Amand Duchenne de Boulogne (1806–1875).

Darwin received dozens of photographs of psychiatric patients from Crichton-Browne, but included in the book only one engraving based on these illustrations - sent on 6 June 1870 (along with Darwin's copy of Duchenne) (Darwin Correspondence Project: Letter 7220) - and this - Figure 19, page 296 (first edition) - was of a patient (with erection of her hair) under the care of Dr James Gilchrist at the Southern Counties Asylum (Crichton Royal) in Dumfries.

"I have been making immense use almost every day of your manuscript - the book ought to be called by Darwin and Browne...." Charles Darwin to James Crichton Browne.