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Charles Keene
1823-1891
The three names
[London : s.n., 1869?]
wood engraving
image: 178 x 116 mm; sheet: 283 x 221 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.912
Notes
Block signed with the artist's monogram and the name of the engraver.
Proof of a wood engraving by Harral after a drawing for an illustration by Charles Keene for the short story "The three names," published in London society's Holiday number for 1869.
The Library also owns an original pen and ink sketch by Keene for this illustration (see: 1986.2092).
Proof of a wood engraving by Harral after a drawing for an illustration by Charles Keene for the short story "The three names," published in London society's Holiday number for 1869.
The Library also owns an original pen and ink sketch by Keene for this illustration (see: 1986.2092).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pencil at lower left: The three names; at right: 1869.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Illustration of an outdoor setting with three men in hiking gear and equipped with pick axes standing in the foreground while a fourth man peers at them from behind a boulder in the background.
Associated names
Harral, Horace, engraver.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Bibliography
Ray, Gordon N. The illustrator and the book in England from 179-1914. New York : Oxford University Press, 1976, p. 119, reproduced p. 121.
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Classification
Department
Century prints
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