EDWARD

See also:

• LINLEY, THOMAS (1732—1795)

LINLEY

See also:

• EDWARD LINLEY SAMBOURNE (1844-1910)

SAMBOURNE (1844-1910)  , English draughtsman, illustrator and designer, was born in London, on the 4th of January 1844 . He was educated at the City of London School, and also received a few months' education at the South Kensington School of Art . After a six years' " gentleman apprenticeship " with John Penn & Son, marine engineers, Greenwich, his humorous and fanciful sketches made surreptitiously in the drawing-office of that firm were shown to Mark Lemon, editor of Punch, and at once secured him an invitation to draw for that journal . In April 1867 appeared his first sketch, " Pros and Cons," and from that time his 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 drew his first political cartoon, properly so=called, in 1884, and ten years later began regularly to design the weekly second cartoon, following Sir John Tenniel as chief cartoonist in Igor . Examples of his best work in book illustration are in Sir F . C . Burnand's New Sandford and Merton (1872), and in Charles Kingsley's Water Babies (1885), which contains some of his most delicate and delightful drawings . The design for the Diploma for the Fisheries Exhibition (1883) is of its kind one of the most extra-ordinary things in English art . As a political designer, while distinguished for wit and force, he was invariably refined and good-humoured to the uttermost; yet it is essentially as an artist that he takes his highest place . He died on the 3rd of August 191o .

See M . H . Spielmann, The

History of Punch (London, 1895) .