96 pages, paperback, 280 x 210, 86 illustrations
PRICE: £15.00
ISBN: 9780955876226
Although the life of George Scharf has not been well-documented, he has left a remarkable legacy of drawings, watercolours and lithographs, which, in a most vivid and detailed manner, describe the life of London in the first half of the 19th Century. In many ways, his work can be compared to that of other great chronicler of early Victorian London – Charles Dickens. The characters that populate The Pickwick Papers or Little Dorrit can all be glimpsed in Scharf’s sketches and prints.
This beautiful catalogue accompanies an exhibition at Sir John Soane’s Museum, the first to be devoted solely to Scharf’s views of London and will include many drawings that have not been on public display before.
This exhibition and catalogue celebrates the most gifted, inventive and eccentric amateurs of the 18th and early 19th centuries with a selection of drawings, engravings and portraits gathered from Soane's collection and other museums, archives and private houses around the country. More