Down House, near Beckenham, Kent, 1887. Artist: Unknown

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Down House, near Beckenham, Kent, 1887. Garden view of the home for forty years of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), English naturalist. It was here that he wrote his important works, including On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859). From The Illustrated London News. (London, 10 December 1887).

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Size: 5980px × 2921px
Location: Greater London,Bromley,Downe,World,Europe,United Kingdom,England,Greater London,Bromley,Beckenham
Photo credit: © Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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