Paul D Stewart / Engraving of an ape-like cave man accompanying an article by Boitard in the French 'Magasin Universel' (April 1838). This is the earliest reconstruction of a pre-historic human. It is striking that it...

Paul D Stewart / A rare British broadsheet illustration with contemporary hand colouring, drawn and engraved by John Emslie and published by James Reynolds in 1849. It shows reconstructions of extinct creatures in the...

Paul D Stewart / Photograph of John Thomas Gulick (March 13, 1832 - April 14, 1923) an American missionary and naturalist from Hawaii. He performed some of the first modern evolutionary studies, starting with a colle...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1 August 1744 - 18 December 1829) Lamarck was a french pre-Darwinian advocate of evolution (transmutation) and an influential invertebrate taxonomist.

Paul D Stewart / Woodbury type photo of Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1912) from 'Men of Mark', by Lock and Whitfield, published 1881 by Sampson Low.

Paul D Stewart / Sepia photograph of Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), English philosopher, 1860s. Spencer was a journalist who published his best known work Principals of Psychology in which he applied Darwin's ideas on e...

Paul D Stewart / Illustartion of series of primate skeletons, the frontis engraving by Waterhouse Hawkins from the first edition of Huxley's 1863 'Evidences as to Man's Place in Nature'. In this book Huxley presented...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'Prof. Darwin' coloured lithograph by Faustin Betbeder, with original Shakespeare quotes in text below. Front page of the 'Figaro' paper N. 475, London Wednesday February 18th 1874. It...

Paul D Stewart / Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1 August 1744 - 18 December 1829) portrait when old and blind. A later hand coloured frontis engraving by Lizars from his Cabinet Cyclopaedia series. Lamarck was a french pre-Da...

Paul D Stewart / First edition of Erasmus Darwin's 'Zoonomia', Part 1 'The Laws of Organic Life' with section revealing his remarkably prescient 'world without end' text on evolution. Erasmus Darwin was Charles Darwin...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) from a picture by Wright of Derby, reproduced with later hand colouring by his grandson, Charles Darwin in 'Life of Erasmus Darwin' 1879 (Ernst Krause co-author)...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. French naturalist (7 September 1707 - 16th April 1788). Steel engraving 1833 by Robert Hart with later colouring, from the painting by F.H. Drouais...

Paul D Stewart / A rare British informational broadsheet illustration with contemporary hand colouring, drawn and engraved by John Emslie and published by James Reynolds in 1849. It shows reconstructions of extinct cr...

Paul D Stewart / A rare British broadsheet illustration entitled 'The antediluvian world', with contemporary hand colouring, drawn and engraved by John Emslie and published by James Reynolds in 1849. It shows reconstr...