Thomas Carlyle 1867 Julia Margaret Cameron British, born India 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. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.” Cameron inscribed Herschel’s print of this powerful image: Carlyle like a rough block of Michelangelo’s sculpture.” Carlyle, on the other hand, wrote of it to Cameron: Terrifically ugly and woe-begone, but has something of likeness: my candid opinion.” Before Cameron and her husband moved to Ceylon in 1875, she contracted with the Autotype Company in London to produce copy negatives of seventy of her most iconic images (many original negatives having deteriorated) and to publish positives from
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