The work of Charles Keene; with an introduction & comments on the drawings illustrating the artist's methods
This is a 1897 New York monograph on the work of Charles Keene, the English Punch illustrator, written by Joseph Pennell and W. H. Chesson for an audience of art lovers and collectors. The pictures are pen-and-ink wood-engraved reproductions of Keene's drawings: loose, hatched interiors and rustic outdoor scenes with figures set against plain paper. A designer might take from them the economy of crosshatching and the way a few dark masses anchor a light page.
