Grand portrait de Thomas Carlyle
Item Information
- Title:
- Grand portrait de Thomas Carlyle
- Description:
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Front view, head covered with a soft hat with large brim. Tinted etching reworked with dry-point. The background is barely tinted, also the clothing.
- Artist:
- Legros, Alphonse, 1837-1911
- Name on Item:
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A. Legros
- Date:
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[ca. 1854–1911]
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Drypoints
Etchings
Portrait prints
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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Alphonse Legros (1837-1911). Prints and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Philosophers
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching, drypoint, sulfertint and roulette ; plate mark 46 x 35 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/m900ss840
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Notes:
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Title from catalogue raisonné.
Catalogue raisonné number: 34, I.
Handwritten on item: 34, I now II.
- Notes (acquisition):
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Frank E. Bliss Collection of the works of Alphonse Legros, Gift of Albert H. Wiggin, 1943
- Notes (date):
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Date from bulk dates of collection.
- Notes (citation):
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Catalogue raisonné cited in this record: Bliss, Frank E., "A catalogue of the etchings, drypoints and lithographs, by Professor Alphonse Legros (1837-1911) in the collection of Frank E. Bliss." (London: Printed for private circulation, 1923).
Catalogue raisonné numbers derived by Bliss from: Poulet-Malassis, Thibaudeau, "Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié de M. Alphonse Legros." (Paris: J. Bauer, 1877)
- Notes (object):
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First state. Excessively rare, this is proof 2. Touched proof. Only 2 impressions known.
- Identifier:
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07_09_001868
- Barcode:
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36666003372410
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