Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian Sir Thomas Seymour 'Jeddo and Belfast

'Jeddo and Belfast

the couple of the left gallop over a pair of pigs and are chased by a dog

A man - possibly John Bull

accompanied by a description

his first at the wheel of an Alfa Romeo

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian Sir Thomas Seymour 'Jeddo and BelfastThomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, c1890. Carlyle (1795 1881) wrote a history of the French Revolution which gained him popular as well as academic fame when it was published in 1837. He also wrote The Chartist in 1840, a book opposing conventional economic thinking. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.