Statue of Thomas Carlyle
Statue of Thomas Carlyle | |
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Artist | Joseph Edgar Boehm |
Medium | Bronze and red granite |
Subject | Thomas Carlyle |
Location | London, England |
51°29′00″N 0°10′09″W / 51.4832°N 0.1691°W | |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Statue of Thomas Carlyle, Embankment Gardens, Chelsea Embankment SW3 |
Designated | 15 April 1969 |
Reference no. | 1080715[1] |
A statue of
History
Production & reception
Boehm had executed a statuette in plaster of Carlyle in April 1874 at the request of
Boehm said it was "the best thing I ever did".[8] James Anthony Froude considered it "as satisfactory a likeness in face and figure as could be rendered in sculpture".[9] John Ruskin described it as "a noble piece of portraiture" with "high and harmonious measures in which it seems to me to express the mind and features of my dear Master." He continued:
here is a piece of vital and essential sculpture; the result of sincere skill spent carefully on an object worthy its care; motive and method alike right; no pains spared, and none wasted. And any spectator of sensitiveness will find that, broadly speaking, all the sculpture round seems dead and heavy in comparison, after he has looked long at this.[10]
James Caw later called it "one of the most virile and remarkable of modern portrait-statues."[11]
Replica
A replica of the bronze by MacDonald and Creswick, itself a Category B listed building,[12] was given to Ecclefechan, Carlyle's place of birth and burial, by Alexander Carlyle, husband of Mary Carlyle Aitken, the writer's niece, and unveiled on 3 September 1929 by the writer's granddaughter Betty Carlyle in the presence of 7,000 spectators.[13] Sir James Crichton-Browne delivered an address, transcribed in the 11 October 1929 issue of The Advertiser.[14] He referred to Carlyle as not merely "a great master of literature" but "our supreme historian", "an earnest social reformer", and, "in short, a man of genius of the colossal type".
Gallery
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Marble
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Bust
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Hands
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Unveiling of the statue on the Haggs
References
- ^ a b Historic England. "Statue of Thomas Carlyle, Embankment Gardens, Chelsea Embankment SW3 (1080715)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
- ^ a b Wilson, David Alec; MacArthur, David Wilson (1934). Carlyle in Old Age (1865–1881). London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. p. 372.
- ^ C. Eaglestone, 'A Memoir of Sir Edgar Boehm', Blackwood's Magazine, CXLIX (1891), 348.
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- ^ "NPG 1623; Thomas Carlyle – Portrait Extended – National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
- ^ Museum, Victoria and Albert. "Crossed hands of Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) | Boehm, Joseph Edgar (Sir) | V&A Explore The Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
- ^ "NPG 658; Thomas Carlyle – Portrait Extended – National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
- ^ ""Thomas Carlyle" by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm". victorianweb.org. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
- ^ Froude, James Anthony (1884). Thomas Carlyle: A History of his Life in London, 1834–1881. Vol. 2. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. p. 460.
- ^ Ruskin, John (1875). Cook, E. T.; Wedderburn, Alexander (eds.). Academy Notes. Notes on Prout and Hunt. And Other Art Criticisms. 1855–1888 (PDF). The Works of John Ruskin. Vol. XIV. London: George Allen (published 1904). p. 288.
- ^ Dyer. p. 549.
- ^ Stuff, Good. "Statue Of Thomas Carlyle, The Haggs, Ecclefechan, Annandale North, Dumfries and Galloway". britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
- ^ "STATUE TO CARLYLE". Macleay Chronicle. 16 October 1929. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
- ^ "CARLYLE STATUE UNVEILED". Advertiser. 11 October 1929. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
External links
- Media related to Statue of Thomas Carlyle, London at Wikimedia Commons