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Charles Keene
1823-1891
Sketchbook
1861-1863
Binding: 5 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches (140 x 232 mm)
Graphite and ink wash on paper.
1986.1779
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Inscriptions/Markings
With "C. Keene" inscribed on the front pastedown, with a sketch of a comic figure with a forked beard and carrying a trumpet below; with dated inscriptions on 3 of the 5 pages of drawings.
Summary
Sketchbook containing 5 pages of drawings in graphite and ink wash, evidently kept by artist Charles Keene, with studies of hands and a woman's sleeve, but including a graphite sketch of Lewis Castle on the volume's first page which bears an inscription reading "Aug 27 1861 Lewis Castle (Her drawing) Jane Pasquier fect. et delin. [illegible] England".
Associated names
Pasquier, Jane.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
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