Keene, Charles Samuel

i) a sketch for "Fashionable Moments", 160 x 176mm.; ii) a sketch for "Cumulative Jurisdiction", 114 x 174mm., stamped with initials; iii) "Sacrilege", 117 x 100mm., stamped with initials; iv) "Preface", 127 x 200mm.; v) "Wet + Dry", 183 x 278mm., initialled; vi) "Punch Vol LXXV", 133 x 210mm., initialled; vii) "Vol. 86 1884", 120 x 190mm., initialled; viii) "Places of Amusement", 166 x 108mm.; ix) "Is Life Worth Living?", 134 x 115mm., initialled and inscribed "J. Crawhall with C. Keene’s kind regards"; together with one other; all pen and ink drawings with corrections and heightening in gouache, each mounted, framed and glazed (10)

i) and vi) Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd. (The Leicester Galleries), London; v) Thos Agnew and Sons, London; Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd. (The Leicester Galleries), London; ix) Joseph Crawhall, Newcastle-on-Tyne, presentation inscription and bookplate on verso

Joseph Crawhall (1821-1896), son of a Newcastle ropemaker, was introduced to Keene in the 1870s and became one of his most frequent collaborators. Having always been interested in illustration and printing Crawhall compiled albums of his humorous drawings, from which Keene reworked over 200 examples for publication in Punch. Although he asked for no recognition of his contribution, Keene routinely wrote in his letters of the great debt he felt and regularly presented his friend with his own sketches, despite Crawhall's protestations: "...you don't know the value of your work. The reward is too great" (The Life and Letters of Charles Samuel Keene, Layard, 1892, p.196).

Crawhall's albums are now in the collections of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.

These nine drawings were published as follows: Punch, 27 May 1871, p.210; Punch, 18 January 1873, p.30; Punch, 25 March 1876, p.107; Punch, 6 January 1877, p.iii; Punch, 8 September 1877, p.106; Punch, 13 July 1878, p.1; Punch, 5 January 1884, p.1; Punch, 12 June 1886, p.286; and Punch, 24 March 1888, p.137.