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Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
Julia Margaret Cameron1867
Royal Collection Trust, UK
London, United Kingdom
Photograph of Thomas Carlyle, head and shoulders, almost profile right. This portrait of Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), celebrated historian and essayist, was widely admired by Cameron's artist friends, including Millais, Rossetti and Watts. In 1869 Queen Victoria met Carlyle at a reception at Westminster Abbey. She described him as 'a strange looking, eccentric old Scotchman, who holds forth in a rather drawling melancholy voice upon Scotland & the utter degeneration of everything!'
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- Title: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- Creator: Julia Margaret Cameron
- Creator Lifespan: 1815 - 1879
- Date Created: 1867
- Physical Dimensions: w247 x h316 mm
- Type: Photographs
- Rights: Supplied by Royal Collection Trust / (c) HM Queen Elizabeth II 2012
- External Link: http://www.rct.uk/collection/2941860
- Medium: Albumen print
- Provenance: Purchased by Queen Victoria
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