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Portrait of Thomas Carlyle

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1786-1864

GUSN

GUSN-174499

Description

Portrait of Thomas Carlyle, a brown haired man wearing a black coat and shirt with white neckerchief. Left side of painting has a dark red background, right side brown. The painting is a frame within a frame with white around painting. Mahogany frame on the outside.

Details

Descriptive Terms

oil paintings (visual works)
Picture
Portrait
Portrait

Inscription

"The Property of / Thomas Gordon Carlyle (?) / Bequeathed by / T.G. Carlyle (?) to / Charlotte Cocadett Parker"

Maker

Frothingham, James, 1786-1864 (Artist)

Dimensions

26 1/2 x 21 1/2 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

In memory of Charlotte Lyman Clark and Benjamin Schyler Clark by their children

Accession Number

1997.47

Related Items

Title Portrait painting Accession Number 1997.44

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