'Thomas Carlyle Esquire', 1839. Portrait of Scottish historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881). Carlyle 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. From "Portraits by Count D'Orsay", an album assembled by Lady Georgiana Codrington. [1850s]
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