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Charles Keene
1823-1891
Initial "M"
1861.
3 5/16 x 5 inches (84 x 128 mm); inlaid in paper border: 9 x 8 3/16 inches (229 x 207 mm)
Pen and brown ink over graphite, on tracing paper.
1986.2141
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Sketch for an illustrated initial "M" for the article "Our national defenders", first sentence: Messmates, ahoy!; published in Punch, May 25, 1861, p. 217.
Sketch for an illustrated initial "M" for the article "Our national defenders", first sentence: Messmates, ahoy!; published in Punch, May 25, 1861, p. 217.
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil at upper right: Vol. 40 p. 217; in pen and ink across drawing: Initial M. for an article of Mr. Silver's.
Summary
Drawing shows a squat, comic figure of a sailor holding a long string attached to a cannon, with a row of sailors standing in the background and a twisted length of rope overhead forming the letter "M".
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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Classification
Century Drawings
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