Key Information
Reference code
DC 004/5
Title
London Sketch Club Ephemera
Date(s)
- 1902-1906 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent
11 items.
Content and Structure
Scope and content
Collection of various London Sketch Club invites.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
This material has been appraised in line with Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections standard procedures.
Accruals
System of arrangement
General Information
Name of creator
(1898-)
Administrative history
The London Sketch Club was founded on 1 April 1898 as a social club for artists working in the field of commercial graphic art, mainly for newspapers, periodicals and books. The founder members were Dudley Hardy, Phil May, Walter Fowler, Lance Thackeray, Cecil Aldin, W Sanders Fiske, Walter Churcher, Tom Browne and its first president George Charles Haité, Hon. Sec. Frederick Hamilton Jackson. Members of the Club have included John Hassall, H.M. Bateman, Salomon van Abbé, Terence Cuneo, Alfred Leete, and David Langdon.