1-345-408 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, c1890. Carlyle (1795-1881) wrote a history of the French Revolution which gained him popular as well as academic fame when it was published in 1837. He also wrote The Chartist in 1840, a book opposing conventional economic thinking. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.