The Work Of Charles Keene; With An Introduction And Comments On The Drawings Illustrating The Artist's Methods

Ioseph Pennel

Verlag: T. FIsher Unwin And Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., London, 1897

Beschreibung

A collection of 134 reproductions of the British artist's works, with an introduction and commentary. Keene has been called 'the artist's artist'; he had no formal training. Instead he found himself apprenticed to Whympers, the wood-engravers, and his earliest known design was a frontispiece for The Adventures Of Dick Boldhero. After his apprenticeship his career went from strength to strength, and his services were retained for the illustration of a variety of publications. He was soon drawing for Punch, and in 1863 he became one of the original members of the Arts Club in Hannover Square. He is credited with drawing his works exactly as he saw them, and deriving humour or sentiment from that alone. He did not resort to artifice or convention. He has been called the greatest English craftsman in black and white. In a cloth binding with gilt lettering to the front board. Externally sound with a little wornwith wear to the extremities and spine, and marking to the boards. With a personal bookplate to the front pastedown, as well as a bookseller's stamp. Internally generally firmly bound, beginning to loosen in places. Pages are generally clean with scattered spots. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GEN2-E-7

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Work Of Charles Keene; With An ...

Verlag: T. FIsher Unwin And Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1897

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: Charles Keene

Zustand: Good

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