[Thomas Carlyle author] – Vintage Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of [Thomas Carlyle author]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Thomas Carlyle author]
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Here a Scottish author appears alongside a dog and a fire, rendered in Japanese woodcut, a combination that points to a well-known episode in Thomas Carlyle's career. In 1835 the manuscript of the first volume of his history of the French Revolution was lost in a fire, a setback he had to recover from by rewriting much of the work. Carlyle was an essayist and historian whose writing shaped Victorian thinking about history and heroism. Prints like this one show how Western people and stories reached Japanese artists in the mid-nineteenth century.
| Created / published | 1850 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 33 x 23 cm. (block) 36.5 x 25.7 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 181; 47623a (white label); LC2585; 43. Earlier control number: 236.3-29. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Carlyle Thomas 1795-1881. Accidents--1850-1900. Dogs--1850-1900. Authors--1850-1900. Fire--1850-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,548 × 4,476 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227204 |
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