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KEENE Charles (1823-1891) Study of a girl. Pencil on tan paper. Provenance: Lord Clarke of Saltwood Keene Album. 4.5x3.5 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) ‘Applicant for Cook’s place: ‘I’ve always been in fam’lies where the servants is kep’, Mum – which I mus’say, M’um, I likes my Rum in the Hevening’. Pen and ink for Punch, circa 1880. Signed. 5.75x4.25 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) Child beneath a fruit tree. Pencil. Provenance: Album of Charles Keene drawings collected by Lord Clark (Sir Kenneth Clark) 6x3.25 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) ‘What in the Captain’s but a choleric word…’ A Squire and his Gardener. Pen and ink, for ‘Punch’. Studio stamp 4.25x7 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) Self-study, seated in a cape. Pen and ink. Provenance: George Somes Layard (1857-1925) editor of ‘The Life and Letters of Charles Keene’. 8x4 inches. Framed: 13x12 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) Study of a seated woman III. Pencil. Provenance: An album of Keene studies belonging to Lord ‘Civilisation’ Clark. 5x3 inches.

94. KEENE Charles (1823-1891) ‘Edwin Edwards (1823-1879) painting’ (Chesson 7). Etching. The etching plate was given by Keene to Mrs Edwards, his printer. 4.75x3.25 inches. Framed: 11.75x9.5 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) Study of a seated woman II. Pencil. Provenance: An album of Keene studies belonging to Lord ‘Civilisation’ Clark. 3.5x4.5 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) Study of a seated woman I. Pencil. Provenance: An album of Keene studies belonging to Lord ‘Civilisation’ Clark. 5.5x3.25 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) The helmsman. Watercolour, gum Arabic and gouache. Inscribed beneath the mount in the ‘by Charles Keene’ (Click Here) and verso ‘This picture was given by Charles Keene to Edward Plumpton’ (Click Here). (Inscriptions by Plumpton?). 11.5x11.5 inches. Framed: 16.75x16.75 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) ‘Portrait of Mrs Heseltine’ (Chesson 2) in her drawing-room papered with Morris’s ‘Venetian Blue’’, Montpelier Square. Etching. Printed in an edition of 150 by Frederick Goulding in 1903. No.1 in Twenty-One Etchings by Charles Keene …Introduction by M H Spielmann. 5x3.25 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) Violin maker disappointing a timber merchant. Pen and ink for Punch (with caption). 5x4 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) Market conversation. Pencil study for a Punch cartoon. 5x4 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) A Volunteer. Pen and ink study for Punch cartoon ‘Demoralising Effect of the Review’, vol.46, p.144. Caption inscribed verso by the artist. Ex. Collection Ronald Searle. 6.75x4 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) ‘Desecration’: English angler upsetting Scotch landlady. Pen and ink. Signed and inscribed. Provenance: Keene to Joseph Crawhall. 5x7 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) Mr Punch; the frontispiece of Punch ‘Vol. 82’. Pen and ink with gouache. Signed. 5x9 inches. Framed: 11.5x15 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) Seated woman. Pen and ink. Circa 1870. Provenance: Album of Keene drawings collected by Lord (Kenneth) Clark. Ex. Collection: Mr and Mrs George Walker. 6.5x4.5 inches. Framed: 14.25x11.5 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) ‘Allopathy’: ‘Paddy’ begging a stronger prescription for a ‘poor motherless child…’. Pen and ink. Signed. Mounted to show the legend (Click Here). 6.5x4 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) ‘Ellen, Francis and Jenny M(?artin)’. Pen and ink. Indistinctly inscribed by the artist. 7.5x6 inches. Framed: 9.75x8 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) The Cabman’s Shelter – Enter Mrs Caroline Giacometti Prodgers, a rich American and scourge of overcharging cabmen. Pen and ink for Punch, 6th March, 1875. Exhibited: For the Love of Drawing: Drawings from an Oxfordshire Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2002. 4.25x7 inches. Framed:11.5x13.75 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) ‘Legislation. Alderman Gustle M.P. (reading Paper at his midday snack) “Oh I dessay! Go down to the ‘Ouse at two o’clock! Indeed! Why it wouldn’t give me no time for luncheon! Oh I shall vote against that! ...” Pen and ink for Punch, March 13th 1886. Signed. Exhibited: Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1901. 4.25x6.75 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) Girl reading out of doors. Pencil. Circa 1860. Provenance: Lord Clark of Saltwood Keene Album. 12.5x11.5 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) On deck. Pencil. Provenance: Lord Clark of Saltwood Keene Album. 4.5x7.5 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) Study of a dinghy. Pen and ink. Provenance: The Lord Clark (of Civilisation) Album of Charles Keene drawings. 5.5x4 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891) A respectable lady. Pen and ink. Circa 1880. Provenance: Christopher Powney. 4.75x2.5 inches.

KEENE Charles (1823-1891)  Man in a bowler, with satchel and umbrella.  Pen and ink, probably study for a ‘Punch’ cartoon. Verso: Same man but in plus fours. Pencil. Exhibited: Christopher Powney.  7x4 inches. Verso