RAJON
[Thomas Carlyle]
circa 1875. Etching. Facsimile signature in lower right margin. In good condition with the exception of light paper discolouration and tape residue in the margins. Image size: 15 3/16 x 11 1/2 inches. Plate mark: 18 x 13 ½ inches. Sheet size: 23 1/8 x 17 5/8 inches.
An intimate portrait of Thomas Carlyle, the famous writer and social critic.
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish born writer and historian, was one of the formative influences on nineteenth-century intellectual life on both sides of the Atlantic. His published writings range from mathematics, German literature, and politics to biography, theology, literary criticism, and history. "Carlyle's genius," wrote Hector Macpherson, "was many-sided. He touched and ennobled the national life at all points. He lifted a whole generation of young men out of the stagnating atmosphere of materialism and dead orthodoxy into the region of the ideal....no English writer has done more to elevate and purify our ideas of life and to make us conscious that the things of the spirit are real..." (From British Authors of the Nineteenth Century, 115-118, The Victorian Web)
Not in O'Donoghue.
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$450.00
