BIB_ID
289015
Accession number
MA 4981.50
Creator
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.
Display Date
1888 Jan 8.
Credit line
Gift of Kenneth A. Lohf, 1995.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Part of an album of drawings, letters, engravings, and photographs compiled by Joseph Crawhall. Select items in the album are described in individual records. See MA 4981 for more information.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 23 May 1972, lot 416); Kenneth A. Lohf.
Summary
Mentioning a woman who wanted a drawing reproduced for "an advertisement of a waif and stray hospital she has established"; describing his Sunday breakfast while people enter the church just opposite his window; noting that he "can't resist collecting books"; quoting from the Rev. Zachary Boyd's Bible in verse; commenting on the death of [Thomas] Westwood.
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