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Adam Sedgwick was one of the founders of modern geology and proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale. In later work based on Welsh rock strata, he proposed the Cambrian period. He had guided the young Charles Darwin in his early study of geology but Sedgwick was an outspoken opponent of Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge

Cambridge

Title

Professor Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), Scholar at Trinity College, Woodwardian Professor of Geology (1818), Canon of Norwich (1834)

Date

1870

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 89.5 x W 68.9 cm

Accession number

212

Acquisition method

gift to The Fitzwilliam Museum from Professor Sir George Murray Humphrey, 1891; transferred, 1904

Work type

Painting

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge

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Artist or maker

Robert B. Farren

1832–1912

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