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Charles Samuel KEENE
Study for 'Thanks To the Eastern Question'
(1877)
Medium
pen and ink and wash with white
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1951
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Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Medium
pen and ink and wash with white
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Accession Number
2708-4
Department
International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1951
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
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Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Human Figures
Humour and Satire
Philosophy, Scholarship, Learning and Teaching
Subjects (specific)
cartoons (humorous images)
children (people by age group)
classrooms
line drawings (drawings)
students
studies (visual works)
Sunday schools (institutions)
teachers
Movements
Victorian
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Web GILBERT
The advantages of travel or A little learning is a dangerous thing: Plate 2
George CRUIKSHANK
The Mother teaching her child to walk
Johnannes, Christianus JANSON
Frank Tate, C.M.G.
W. B. McINNES
The School-Boy
William BLAKE
The young Christ teaching in the temple
Luca GIORDANO
The Hermit and scholar,Johannes Leonard Gerusus,as a beggar
UNKNOWN; Francesco VILLAMENA (after)
Monsieur Folletête and Tupy, Paris, March 1912
Jacques Henri LARTIGUE
Amitabha Buddha, Bodhisattvas and Taoist scholars
KOREAN
Calves' heads and brains or A phrenological lecture
Henry Thomas ALKEN
Marcus Curtius
Benjamin Robert HAYDON
George Ewing Esq.
James QUINN
Finished drawing for 'Chronology'
Charles Samuel KEENE
Diogenes in search of a man
Jacob JORDAENS
Professor Marshall-Hall
Arthur STREETON
Finished drawing for 'Our Medical Students'
Charles Samuel KEENE
Grammar
Cornelis CORT (engraver); Frans FLORIS (after)
The advantages of travel or A little learning is a dangerous thing: Plate 1
George CRUIKSHANK
Circe
Meyer ALTSON
Philosophy
Lionel LINDSAY
Robert Woodlark
John FABER the elder
Archimedes, Descartes and Thales
James BARRY
Study for 'Thanks To the Eastern Question'
Charles Samuel KEENE
Vase
YOON Kwang-cho
Grand bruit (Big noise)
Janet DAWSON
Seated philosopher
UNKNOWN; PARMIGIANINO (after)
Philosophy I
Bea MADDOCK
The Mother teaching her child to walk
Johnannes Christianus JANSON
Ancora imparo
UNKNOWN; Baccio BANDINELLI (after)
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