Thomas Carlyle

Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm Bart., R.A. (1834-90

1881

Bronze

Chelsea Embankment, London

According to the plaque accompanying the marble version in National Galleries of Scotland, this sculptural portrait of Carlyle was first modelled from life Fred Kaplan lists the marble version first as well, describing the one in Cheyne Walk as "a related bronze statue."

For a front view

For marble version, the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

Photograph by George P. Landow

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References

Beattie, Susan. The New Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. Plate 10.

Read, Benedict. Victorian Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982. P. 337, Plate 402.

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Last modified November 2001