Charles Warren (engraver)

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Charles Turner Warren (4 June 1762 – 21 April 1823) was a British engraver.

Life and work

Charles Turner Warren

Other publications to which he contributed were Kearsley's edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare, Du Roveray's edition of The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope,^[2] Walker's British Classics, John Sharpe's Classics, Suttaby's Poets, and Physiognomical Portraits.

Warren was an active member of the

There is a portrait of Warren from a sketch by William Mulready in John Pye's Patronage of British Art.^[3]

Ambrose William Warren (c. 1781 – 1856), the brother of Charles Warren,^[4] was also a line-engraver of note. Examples of his work can be found in Cattermole's 'Book of the Cartoons' (Houlston and Hughes, 1840),^[5] the 'Gem' (1830–31), and 'Ancient Marbles in the British Museum.' His most important single plates are 'The Beggar's Petition' (after W. F. Witherington, 1827), and 'The New Coat' (after David Wilkie, 1832). He died in 1856.

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