Charles William Sherborn (1831-1912) - Etching Limehouse Dockyard

Description

An etching with a crisp strike of a scene at a dockyard in Limehouse, London, including men building a barge in the foreground. Presented in a card mount. A copy of the same print was acquired by the British Museum in 1876. Signed and inscribed with the location in plate to the lower-right corner.

Condition

There is some minor foxing and some discolouration to the mount. The etching has been glued to the mount at the edges of the substrate. Overall in good condition.

Size

13 x 30.7cm (5.1" x 12.1")
Plate: 14.4 x 31.5cm (5.7" x 12.4")

Artist Biography

Charles William Sherborn (1831-1912) was an etcher and bookplate engraver born in central London. Sherborn studied at the Government School of Drawing and Design, then located in Somerset House, and was also apprenticed to Robert Oliver, a silver-plate engraver in Soho. In 1852 he traveled to Paris and Italy to further his studies and by the middle of 1853 he lived in Geneva where he worked as an engraver and designer for a local goldsmith for three years. On his return to London, he was employed in Jermyn Street as a jeweller and eventually in 1872 decided to work as a self-employed etcher and engraver, mainly reproducing contemporary portraits, paintings, and designing bookplates. He is alleged to have worked for Dante Gabriel Rossetti whose portrait by Sherborn is in the Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco. Sherborn exhibited at Royal Academy. He was a founder member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers and also showed at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Sherborn has work in the collection of the John Rylands University Library, Manchester, who hold over 1,500 bookplates donated by George H. Viner, consisting largely of those designed by Charles William Sherborn between 1860 and 1912. He presented a complete set of his bookplates, engravings, and etchings to the British Museum. His surname according to Government records is spelled as above; however, a variety of misspellings have been observed. These include 'Sherbourn', Sherbourne' and Sherborne'. Works by Sherborn can also be seen in the National Portrait Gallery.

Location

Limehouse, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom