Inspired by Darwin: Endless Forms at the Fitzwilliam Museum

The Misshapen Polyp Floated on the Shores, a Sort of Smiling and Hideous Cyclops, by Odilon Redon, from Les Origines, 1883 Photograph: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/The Fitzwilliam Museum

Duria Antiquior (An Earlier Dorset) by Robert Farren, circa 1850 Photograph: The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences/The Fitzwilliam Museum

Morning by Edwin Landseer, circa 1853 Photograph: Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Henry P. McIlhenny /The Fitzwilliam Museum

The Abduction by Paul Cezanne, 1867 Photograph: Action images

The Pigmy Earthmen at the Royal Aquarium, 1884, wood engraving, Photograph: The Bodleian Library/The Fitzwilliam Museum

Rocks at Port-Coton, the Lion Rock, Belle-Ile by Claude Monet, 1886 Photograph: The Fitzwilliam Museum

Little Dancer Aged Fourteen by Edgar Degas, bronze cast with fabric skirt, circa 1922, from an original circa 1878–81 in wax and mixed media Photograph: James Austin/Sainsbury Centre for Visual /Yale Center for British Art

Alexander and Diogenes by Edwin Landseer, exhibited 1848 Photograph: Tate Gallery/The Fitzwilliam Museum

Mammoth Hunters by Ernest Griset, circa 1869–71 Photograph: The Bromley Museum /The Fitzwilliam Museum

Men of the Day No. 33 by James Tissot, from Vanity Fair, 30 September 1871 Photograph: Richard Caspole/The Fitzwilliam Museum

The Artists' Wives by James Tissot, 1885 Photograph: The Fitzwilliam Museum

A teaching sheet showing Arum maculatum (‘Lords and Ladies’) by John Stevens Henslow, 1836. The botanist and geologist Henslow was an early influence for Charles Darwin. Henslow introduced him to Captain Fitzroy of HMS Beagle Photograph: Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge /The Fitzwilliam Museum

Houseless and Hungry by Luke Fildes, 1869, wood engraving Photograph: Richard Caspole/Yale University Library /The Fitzwilliam Museum

Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds by Martin Johnson Heade, 1871 Photograph: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC/The Fitzwilliam Museum

Pegwell Bay, Kent – A Recollection of October 5th, 1858, by William Dyce Photograph: Tate gallery/The Fitzwilliam Museum

Reginald Southey with Skeletons and Skulls, 1857-1859. A photographic portrait by Lewis Carroll Photograph: The Fitzwilliam Museum