Charles Keene

Charles Keene
1823-1891
Initial "M"
1861
Pen and brown ink over graphite, on tracing paper.
3 5/16 x 5 inches (84 x 128 mm); inlaid in paper border: 9 x 8 3/16 inches (229 x 207 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2141
Notes: 

Title supplied by cataloger.
Sketch for an illustrated initial "M" for the article "Our national defenders", first sentence: Messmates, ahoy!; published in Punch, May 25, 1861, p. 217.

Inscription: 

In pencil at upper right: Vol. 40 p. 217; in pen and ink across drawing: Initial M. for an article of Mr. Silver's.

Summary: 

Drawing shows a squat, comic figure of a sailor holding a long string attached to a cannon, with a row of sailors standing in the background and a twisted length of rope overhead forming the letter "M".

Associated names: 

Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.

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