Thomas Carlyle, 1867, Carbon print, x cm. (13 3/4 x 11 1/16 in.), Photographs, Julia Margaret Cameron (British

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Thomas Carlyle, 1867, Carbon print, x cm. (13 3/4 x 11 1/16 in.), Photographs, Julia Margaret Cameron (British (born India), Calcutta 1815–1879 Kalutara, Ceylon), Cameron long wished to photograph the brilliant but controversial historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) and ultimately took her camera to London to do so. “When I have had such men before my camera,” she wrote, “my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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