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    296 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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Results for "Thomas Carlyle"12 records

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Zoe, Maid of Athens by Julia Margaret Cameron, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Zoe, Maid of Athens

Julia Margaret Cameron (d. 1879)

1866 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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Thomas Carlyle by Henry Wolf, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Thomas Carlyle

Henry Wolf (d. 1916)

1904 · Print, wood engraving

Cleared · CC0

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Thomas Carlyle by Julia Margaret Cameron, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Thomas Carlyle

Julia Margaret Cameron (d. 1879)

1867 · Carbon print

Cleared · Public Domain

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Large Portrait of Thomas Carlyle by Alphonse Legros, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Large Portrait of Thomas Carlyle

Alphonse Legros (d. 1911)

c. 1857–1911 · Print, etching and aquatint

Cleared · CC0

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Thomas Carlyle by Julia Margaret Cameron, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Thomas Carlyle

Julia Margaret Cameron (d. 1879)

1867 · Albumen silver print

Cleared · Public Domain

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Small Portrait of Thomas Carlyle by Alphonse Legros, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Small Portrait of Thomas Carlyle

Alphonse Legros (d. 1911)

1875 · Print, aquatint

Cleared · CC0

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Lives of Great People of the Occident (Taisei ijin den): Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) by Unidentified artist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lives of Great People of the Occident (Taisei ijin den): Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Unidentified artist

ca. 1870 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Butter Pat by Union Porcelain Works, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Butter Pat

Union Porcelain Works (d. 1922)

1885 · Porcelain

Cleared · Public Domain

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Maclise Portraits from Fraser's Magazine: Gallery of Literary Characters

Daniel Maclise (d. 1870)

1830–38 · Illustrations: etching, lithographs

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art, vols. 4-5

John Sartain (d. 1897)

January–December 1849 · Illustrations: steel engravings, mezzotints, wood engravings, lithographs

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Portrait of Thomas Carlyle

Walter Greaves (d. 1930)

1860–70 · Brush and black ink wash, over graphite

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Carlyle in His Garden at Chelsea, from "The Art Journal," opposite p. 7

Charles Oliver Murray (d. 1923)

January 1882 · Etching

In copyright

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