RARE MID VICTORIAN MR PUNCH ORIGINAL HAND DRAWN CARTOON Edward Linley Sambourne

EXTREMELY RARE MID VICTORIAN MR PUNCH ORIGINAL HAND DRAWN CARTOON. You will not find this image anywhere else on the market, i dont think this cartoon was ever published as i have searched and cannot find it in print anywhere. (4 January 1844 3 August 1910) was an English cartoonist and illustrator most famous for being a draughtsman for the satirical magazine. For more than forty years and rising to the position of "First Cartoonist" in his final decade. He was also a great-grandfather of. Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon. Who was the husband of. In 1861 Sambourne was apprenticed to John Penn & Son. Initially he worked under the founder's son, John Penn Jr, but was moved to the drawing office when his employer discovered his aptitude for draft drawing. In his spare time Sambourne continued to draw caricatures and study the great graphic artists such as. One version Sambourne recounts about the events leading to his introduction to. Is that his friend and fellow employee at Penn's, Alfred German Reed, showed one of his sketches to his father, the theatrical impresario. At his son's urging Thomas passed the drawing on to Mark Lemon. Lemon was sufficiently impressed by the sketch that he encouraged Sambourne to take art lessons and consult the engraver. Pleased with the results, Lemon published a drawing by Sambourne in the 27 April 1867 issue of.

This was an initial letter'T' showing the politician. Initially employed on a casual basis by Lemon, Sambourne was asked to supply the decorated initial letters that stood at head of articles, stories and poems incorporating the first letter into a fanciful design.

Between 1867 and 1874 Sambourne contributed 350 initial letters. Although Sambourne's distinctive style emerged only slowly, he became a regular staff member of Punch in 1871. At the beginning he made his name by his "social" drawings while continuing to provide his highly elaborated initial letters. He drew his first political cartoon, properly so-called, in 1884, and ten years later began regularly to design the weekly second cartoon.

At the end of John Tenniel's. Long occupancy in 1901, he became the magazin's chief principal cartoonist. Unusually for a black and white artist, Sambourne used a huge library of photographic images to give accuracy to his work, which was characterized by a vivid and decisive linearity as well as an artistic inventiveness that took his images far beyond the simple concept of a cartoon or "comic cut". The quality of his work for Punch was acknowledged by the Royal Academy, which exhibited his drawings over a 20-year period. The item "RARE MID VICTORIAN MR PUNCH ORIGINAL HAND DRAWN CARTOON Edward Linley Sambourne" is in sale since Sunday, February 28, 2021. This item is in the category "Antiques\Silver\Solid Silver\Boxes".

The seller is "silver_treasures" and is located in ledbury. This item can be shipped worldwide.