Thomas Carlyle
Created by William Brodie
Object class: sculpture
Object type: bust
Material: processed and vegetal - plaster, metal - bronze
Technique: bronzed, tinted
Description: Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), historian and essayist; bust, head slightly to left and looking downwards
Inscriptions
W. Brodie, R.S.A. | Sc. 1879.
Location: back of base
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Academy of Art: The Exhibition of Scottish Art, 1939
W. G. Patterson collection; presented by him to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1887.
Citing this record
'Thomas Carlyle', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib7_1215447833, accessed 25 Sep 2023]
