“A dog knocked over the lamp on the table which held Carlyle's important papers on which he had worked for many years. His manuscript caught fire, turned to ash, and Carlyle became sick from depression(?). In the end, everything still turned out great.”
Featured on PDR in the collection Japanese Prints of Western Inventors, Artists and Scholars (1873)
A set of prints depicting famous Western inventors and scholars which seem to have been produced by the Japanese Department of Education. Although The Library of Congress only gives a rough date for them, between 1850 and 1900, the University of Tsukuba Library mentions a more specific 1873, a year which would make sense given the intense period of "westernisation" going on in Japan at this time, a presumed motive behind the making of the prints depicting such stalwarts of the industrial revolution in the West as James Watt and Richard Arkwright.
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“A dog knocked over the lamp on the table which held Carlyle's important papers.”
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1873
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