Godfrey Sykes (1824-1866)
Godfrey Sykes (1824-1866)

An Odd Alphabet - an Album of alphabetical Drawings

细节
Godfrey Sykes (1824-1866)
An Odd Alphabet - an Album of alphabetical Drawings
signed and inscribed on frontispiece 'An Odd Alphabet done by Godfrey Sykes'
pen and black and red ink
10 x 7in. (25.4 x 17.8cm.) (sh)

拍品专文

Contemporary half-morocco binding

Godfrey Sykes was born in Malton, 1824 and studied at the Sheffield School of Design, where he later became a teacher. His work was greatly influenced by that of Raphael and Michelangelo. He was asked to come to London to work on the Victoria & Albert Museum by Prince Albert, the Prince Consort, and the columns he designed in the Horticultural Garden are visible today. It was said of him by J.H. Pulten in a posthumous exhibition held in June 1866 at the V&A that, "his energy and feeling for architecture were exceptional." He is also remembered for designing the cover of the first edition of The Cornhill Magazine in 1860.