[Modern print, mixed media] Portrait of historian Arnold Toynbee, published 1908, 1 p.

Dirk Harting (1884-1970)

[Modern portrait print, mixed media] Portrait of historian Arnold Toynbee, published 1908, 1 p.

Name: [Modern portrait print, mixed media] Portrait of historian Arnold Toynbee, published 1908, 1 p.
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Portrait of Arnold Toynbee (1852-1883) at the age of 26. After a photograph. Headshot portrait, facing left, with a shirt, tie and jacket.

Arnold Toynbee was an English economic historian at Balliol College, Oxford. Toynbee was famously among the first to identify and describe the British “industrial revolution” as an event. His analysis of monopolies and oligopolies was prescient. Toynbee was a thorough historicist and adhered to the inductive method. A social activist and humanitarian, he was also an opponent of laissez-faire economic policy. Toynbee died at the tragically young age of 30.

On the top right corner: AET 26. Monogrammed on the top left corner: DH/08. Titled in pen under the portrait. With dedication in pencil: voor Ham 18 Juni ’08. On verso collector’s mark of Pim van Eekelen [L. 5101].

[NL] Arnold Toynbee (1852-1881) werd slechts 30 jaar, maar verwierf desondanks aanzien als academicus. Hij doceerde economische geschiedenis in Oxford, waar hij zich kritisch uitliet over de om zich heen grijpende industriële revolutie. The effects of the Industrial Revolution prove that free competition may produce wealth without producing well-being, was zijn centrale boodschap.

SKU: PR121055

Mixed media on paper: etching, engraving and drypoint; total: 238 x 188 mm; some light foxing, nicely yellowing paper.

€ 108,90 (€ 90,00 ex. btw)

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