A bookdealer recently offered Charterhouse first refusal on a scrapbook bought at auction in a job lot of old books.It was very battered, missing the front cover, and comprised about 50 pieces of artwork, some of which he thought related to Charterhouse in the late 19th Century. It transpired that the scrapbook contained artwork between about 1887 and 1894, possibly items submitted for The Greyfriar illustrated magazine (founded in 1884), but never published and, perhaps, kept by the Drawing Master, Struan Robertson. It includes seven previously unpublished schoolboy works by the famous cartoonist, Max Beerbohm (g1890), and a watercolour with Baden-Powell's name in pencil underneath it: Robert Baden-Powell left Charterhouse in 1876, but regularly sent drawings and articles back to the School for inclusion in The Greyfriar. It has not been possible to preserve the album itself because the pages were too acidic and brittle, but the artwork has been carefully removed and conserved in the Archives.
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