A scholar's study. Etching by C.W. Sherborn, 1890.

  • Sherborn, Charles William, 1831-1912.
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1890
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652658i
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Among items shown are a bust of Shakespeare, a profile portrait of Charles Darwin in a roundel, statuettes of the Sphinx and of the Venus de Milo, plants, a microscope, and a bookcase of 16th-18th century books, reflecting the bibliographical, antiquarian and natural historical interests of Charles Davies Sherborn, then engaged on the first volume of his Index animalium 1785-1850 (1902-1933)

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1890.

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1 print : engraving, with etching ; platemark 13.9 x 9.5 cm

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Ex libris Caroli Davies Sherborn. C.W. Sherborn fecit 1890 The bookcase is inscribed Libri amici deus natura (Latin, books are friends, nature is God)

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Bookplate of Charles Davies Sherborn, engraved by his father

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Wellcome Collection 652658i

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