"A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing"
Charles Samuel Keene
1870–1891
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and wash, touches of white gouache (bodycolor)
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 9/16 × 7 7/16 in. (14.1 × 18.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1924
Accession Number
24.67.8
Tags
Men
About the Artist
Charles Samuel Keene
Charles Samuel Keene (1823–1891) was born on 10 August 1823 in Hornsey, Middlesex, the son of solicitor Samuel Browne Keene and Mary Sparrow. Following his father's early death, young Charles was educated at Ipswich School until age sixteen, then briefly articled to a London solicitor before transferring to the office of architect William Pilkington. Finding these pursuits uncongenial, he apprenti...