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. The collar of the shirt and beard are lightened and the clothing strongly tinted and charged with etched lines. Plate destroyed after the edition of 20 proofs.
- 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 47 x 36 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/m900ss86j
- 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, III.
Handwritten on item: 34 III now IV.
- 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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Third state. Rare.
- Identifier:
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07_09_001869
- Barcode:
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36666003372428
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