Thomas Carlyle

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Signed, inscribed and dated (bottom right): GS. 16th May. 1874/T. Carlyle.
There are also various colour notes and descriptions of objects in Scharf's hand.

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Bequeathed by Scharf, together with most of his papers, 1895.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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