Record ID:
292134
Accession number:
MA 7349.1
Published:
[England, 1855]
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description:
1 photographic print : b&w ; 109 x 90 mm
Notes:
Bound above a piece of paper with an inscription signed by Thomas Carlyle: "Your [sic] more to be pitied than envied, T. Carlyle."
Bound at the front of a volume of two letters from Thomas Carlyle to Jane Welsh Carlyle and one letter from Margaret Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle's mother, to her son. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 7349.1-4).
Summary:
Half-length portrait of British author Thomas Carlyle seated at a table reading. He is in profile facing left with an open book propped against a stack of books on the table.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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