CARLYLE Highly Finished Ink Portrait
1930WRCLIT68234Oak Park IL 1930. Original drawing in ink 43 x 32.5 cm plus large margins. A few faint smudges to margins verso a bit smudged and soiled. with mounting residue on top edge verso. Matted. Very good. A fine portrait of a contemplative Carlyle seated. deep in thought smoking his pipe by a fireplace by the Chicago commercial artist and book plate designer 1880 - 1972. The portrait is enclosed within a complex border of flowers thistle and vines with Carlyle's name entwined in the lower margin. This portrait is very much in the style of - but surpasses in composition - the portrait he did of William Morris which appeared as part of a series in THE INLAND PRINTER to which he was frequent contributor. Signed in the image and with Junge's name and address in pencil on the verso. unknown books
