Artist

Sherlock

Sherlock is a Romanticism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Sherlock kept a pocketful of stubby pencils and drew wherever he happened to be—on napkins, ledgers, or the back of a sermon hand-out—because the world kept showing him things he couldn’t un-see. He once sat through three February gales outside Newark Castle just to catch the way the river light pasted the stone a particular shade of rust. That’s why every line in his 1800–21 castle studies feels like a weather report: it’s not the castle you’re looking at, it’s the week you spent watching it. Tap Newark Castle, 1800–21 to stand inside his sketches and feel the wind shift.

Works by Sherlock

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

Catalog records compiled from museum open-access collections; the artworks shown are in the public domain. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.