BIB_ID
292134
Accession number
MA 7349.1
Creator
Tait, Robert Scott, active 1845-1875, photographer.
Published
[England, 1855]
Credit line
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).
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).
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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.
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