See also:EDWARD See also:LINLEY See also:SAMBOURNE (1844-1910)
, See also:English draughtsman, illustrator and designer, was See also:born in See also:London, on the 4th of See also:January 1844
.
He was educated at the See also:City of London School, and also received a few months' See also:education at the See also:South See also:Kensington School of See also:Art
.
After a six years' " See also:gentleman See also:apprenticeship " with See also:John See also:Penn & Son, marine See also:engineers, See also:Greenwich, his humorous and fanciful sketches made surreptitiously in the See also:drawing-See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of that See also:firm were shown to See also:Mark See also:Lemon, editor of See also:Punch, and at once secured him an invitation to draw for that See also:journal
.
In See also:April 1867 appeared his first See also:sketch, " Pros and Cons," and from that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time his See also:work was regularly seen, with rare exceptions, in the weekly pages of Punch
.
In 1871 he was called to the Punch " table." At the beginning he made his name by his " social " drawings and especially by his highly elaborated initial letters
.
He See also:drew his first See also:political See also:cartoon, properly so=called, in 1884, and ten years later began regularly to See also:design the weekly second cartoon, following See also:Sir John See also:Tenniel as See also:chief cartoonist in Igor
.
Examples of his best work in See also:book See also:illustration are in Sir F
.
C
.
See also:Burnand's New See also:Sandford and Merton (1872), and in See also:Charles See also:Kingsley's See also:Water Babies (1885), which contains some of his most delicate
and delightful drawings
.
The design for the Diploma for the See also:Fisheries See also:Exhibition (1883) is of its See also:kind one of the most extra-See also:ordinary things in English art
.
As a political designer, while distinguished for wit and force, he was invariably refined and See also:good-humoured to the uttermost; yet it is essentially as an artist that he takes his highest See also:place
.
He died on the 3rd of See also:August 191o
.
See M
.
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.
Spielmann, The See also:History of Punch (London, 1895)
.
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