Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

Institution

Royal Collection Trust

Object description:

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!’. Text adapted from Roger Fenton – Julia Margaret Cameron: Early British photographs from the Royal Collection, London, 2010.

Object/Work type:

photographs

Cultural Heritage type:

Visual Works (hierarchy name)

Location:

London - United Kingdom

Object measurements:

31.6 x 24.7 cm (image). 58.0 x 46.0 cm (mount)

Production

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79) (photographer)

Date: 1867

Place: England

Material/Technique: Albumen print

Provenance

Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901) (Acquirer)

Material/Technique: [None]

Subject/theme:

Thomas Carlyle, Carlyle, Thomas

Resource

Rights Type:  

Record

Source: Royal Collection Trust