Keene Management 1868 {1892} NGV [DR]

Keene, Charles (1823-91; English)
Management 1868
Pen and ink
Purchased, 1892 (advice of Bernard Hall)
National Gallery of Victoria (p.431.6-1)

This sketch was “selected by the Director from the Anglo-American Exhibition in 1892” (NGV 1905, also noting that it was published in Punch).

It typifies Keene’s lively graphic style, widely admired in the later 19^th and early 20^th centuries (see linked artist entry for further details).

Refs.

AR 1892, p.23; NGV 1894, p.53 (II.Stawell Gallery, no.57; ill.); NGV 1905, p.59 (II.Stawell Gallery, no.82: ill.) [£5/5]