A. Albumen Cards
Year
Country
 mm
Item
Recto
Verso

Notes

1858-60
UK
63x105
A1 Carte de visite by L. Caldesi & Co. depicting Huxley as a young man. Issued about the same time that The Origin of Species was published, and that Huxley was gaining fame as Darwin's champion [1].
c1865
Russia
59x102
A2 Carte de visite based on c1854 photo by Maull & Fox. The Russian translation of The Origin of Species was published in 1864, and Darwin became well-known in Russia during the 1860s [22].
c1869
UK
62x104
A3 Set of rare photographs of a heavily-bearded Huxley, issued as cartes de visite by the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company. All appear to be from the same photo session, but based on verso text, A5 was issued later (post-1873) than the other two.
A4
A5
c1870
62x103
A6 Carte de visite by Elliott and Fry of London.
c1874 62x100 A7 Carte de visite of a photo by Elliott and Fry of London, issued by unknown publisher.
c1875
63x105
A8 Matched pair of cartes de visite by Hughes and Edmonds of London, depicting imaginary assemblages of prominent Victorian scientists and philosophers, including Darwin (A8) and Huxley (A9). These group photos are composites based on actual portraits, and incorporate J. M. Cameron's 1868 photo [8] of Darwin, and Elliott & Fry's c1870 photo of Huxley (horizontally inverted).
A9
1876
62x105
A10 Carte de visite issued by the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company after 1873 (Exhibition date on verso), probably in 1876 (hand-written date on verso).
c1880 107x166 A11 Iconic portrait, issued as a cabinet card by Elliott and Fry of London. One of the last and most reproduced photos taken of Darwin.
c1884 USA 107x163 A12 Cabinet card of a painting by M. C. Tiers. Six scientists, including Darwin and Huxley, appear above; below sits Wilford Hall, the New York-based editor of the anti-science magazine Microcosm, surrounded by 30 allies.