Charles Warren (engraver)

Charles Turner Warren[1] was born in London, and of his early career the only facts recorded are that he married at the age of eighteen, and was at one time engaged in engraving on metal for calico printing.

His engraved plates of Robert Smirke in the English editions of the Arabian Nights (1802), Gil Blas (1809), and Don Quixote (1818), were very successful.

His Broken Jar (after David Wilkie), one of the illustrations to poet Peter Coxe's Social Day, was considered a masterpiece of its kind.

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

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.'