Thrift
Charles Samuel Keene
1870/91
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with touches of white gouache, over black chalk, on cream wove paper, laid down on buff wove card
Dimensions
11.6 × 17.9 cm (4 5/8 × 7 1/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46000
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...