Charles William Sherborn

In 1872, he decided to work independently as an etcher and engraver, mainly reproducing contemporary portraits and subject paintings, and designing bookplates, the latter of which would later form the bulk of his work. He also made original etchings of London and was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy. He was a close friend of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, co-founder of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, and was elected a fellow of that society in 1884. Before his death, he presented a complete set of his works to the British Museum.^[3]

Sherborn died at Kensington in 1912, at the age of eighty.^[4] He had married in 1860 Hannah Wait (d. 1922), the daughter of Thomas Davies, a watchmaker, and widow of Thomas Wait, a draper. By her he had four sons and a daughter, the eldest of whom, Charles Davies, became noted as a bibliographer.

• Charles William Sherborn, The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, University of Glasgow.
• Works by or about Charles William Sherborn at the Internet Archive
• 1903 self-portrait
• Memorial engraving made on Sherborn's death
• A History of the Family of Sherborn, written by Charles Davies Sherborn, who dedicated it to his father
• Viner Bookplate collection; John Rylands Library (mainly bookplate designed by Sherborn)