The Potato Harvest
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash and white gouache, over black chalk, with touches of graphite, on ivory wove paper, laid down on tan wove card
Dimensions
18.9 × 12.8 cm (7 1/2 × 5 1/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51240
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...