A sketchbook by the Bavarian artist Georg Johann Scharf (1788-1860) was discovered recently by ephemera dealer Valerie Jackson-Harris at the Sunbury Antiques Market at Kempton Park.
Scharf, coincidentally, was the subject of a book by Jackson-Harris’ late husband, Peter Jackson-Harris, the renowned collector of and writer on London ephemera.
George Scharf’s London (1987) featured a selection of the artist’s drawings of the Dickensian city. Scharf was also the subject of an exhibition at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London in 2009.