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On 05/01/2019

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7 Comments

  1. S

    This is a really interesting watermeadow, I will browse through some others now

  3. Lucy Cherry-Smith

    This article is an extremely useful potted history of the work and lives of my grandfather Arthur and his brothers Edward and Frank Cherry. In particular I am delighted to see that my great Aunt Ivy features in your article. Arthur died before I was born but I knew Ivy.
    I have sent your article to my cousin in Australia as he has a part to play in this saga since, as a toddler he lived with Arthur and his wife Margaret during the 2nd world war so he remembers his grandparents Arthur & Margaret.
    Thanking you!
    Lucy Cherry-Smith

    • W355eX_ar7

      I have always admired the detailed graphic work of the Cherry brothers and as a historian I have enjoyed delving further into their background. Thank you Lucy – it is lovely to hear from a family descendant – it helps bring the artists and their work alive. NP

    • Laurel Hayes

      I’ve been doing my family genealogy and believe that Frank was my great great grandfather. Frank Sr, and his son Frank Jr came to the US in 1910 via the SS Haverford with a home address of Chequers street St Albans according to the manifest. Frank Jr later married Marie Collins and had one son Edmund who was my grandfather. I found this article extremely enlightening and hope to be able to find more about this branch of my family tree. Up to this point it had been a bit of a mystery.

  4. David Lemon

    I have discovered a photo in the Delta Hospital Thrift store with the label Shelley’s Cottage Lynmouth
    Copyright and Published by Edward J Cherry London

    It appears to have been lightly hand coloured. It shows the cottage in a state recorded by an old photo on line. There are two children, a boy and a girl deep in the photo. The implication is that it’s by Edward J Cherry senior. The etcher is not recorded to have made any photographs and had emigrated to Canada in 1907. Possibly he took this print with him. I’d put it as first decade of 20th Century. The odd part is that Edward J Cherry, presumably with the same initials as his son, was not based in London. On the back of the frame is a relatively modern tape label bearing the names Peter and Mary S Powell.

    It’s quite lovely and I’m happy to have it. I’d be interested in any history of course.

    • W355eX_ar7

      Shelley’s Cottage is a very pretty cob and thatch building in Lymouth that was reputed to have been where poet Percy Bysshe Shelley spent his honeymoon with bride Harriet Westbrook in 1812. Originally called Woodbine Cottage, it later became adapted into part of the Rising Sun Hotel on Mars Hill. I have not seen any etchings by any of the Cherry Brothers of this building, but as a photograph it could have been taken by either Edward senior or junior – the 1901 Census shows that not only Edward but also two of his sons, Arthur and Edward were recorded as photographers. It is just possible that ‘London’ refers to the London Road studios in St Albans.
      Edward Senior tended to concentrate on portraits, and although Edward junior emigrated to Canada, he did return to England after the First World War, and worked prolifically on his English buildings series during the 1920s.

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