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HENRY WESTON KEEN. Skull Crowned with Snakes and Flowers, The Duchess of Malfi

Skull Crowned with Snakes and Flowers, The Duchess of Malfi. Artist: Henry Weston Keen (British, 1899-1935 Walberswick, Suffolk). Author: John Webster (British, ca. 1580-ca. 1634). Dimensions: sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 1/2 in. (15.6 x 24.1 cm)
sheet: 22 x 14 5/8 in. (55.9 x 37.1 cm). Date: ca. 1930.
Keen worked as a printmaker and illustrator in the 1920s and 1930s, creating unsettling symbolist images reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley. Two significant commissions were designs for luxury editions published by The Bodley Head-a firm that had launched Beardsley in the 1890s-Oscar Wilde's "Picture of Dorian Gray" (1925) and John Webster's "The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi" (1930). After Keen's early death from tuberculosis, The Twenty-One Gallery in London held a memorial exhibition.

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Author:

HENRY WESTON KEEN (1899-1935)

Title:

Skull Crowned with Snakes and Flowers, The Duchess of Malfi

Caption:

Skull Crowned with Snakes and Flowers, The Duchess of Malfi. Artist: Henry Weston Keen (British, 1899-1935 Walberswick, Suffolk). Author: John Webster (British, ca. 1580-ca. 1634). Dimensions: sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 1/2 in. (15.6 x 24.1 cm) sheet: 22 x 14 5/8 in. (55.9 x 37.1 cm). Date: ca. 1930. Keen worked as a printmaker and illustrator in the 1920s and 1930s, creating unsettling symbolist images reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley. Two significant commissions were designs for luxury editions published by The Bodley Head-a firm that had launched Beardsley in the 1890s-Oscar Wilde's "Picture of Dorian Gray" (1925) and John Webster's "The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi" (1930). After Keen's early death from tuberculosis, The Twenty-One Gallery in London held a memorial exhibition.

Technique/material:

Pen and ink, and wash

Museum:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Credit:

Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

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Image size:

2018 x 3385 px | 19.5 MB

Print size:

17.1 x 28.7 cm | 6.7 x 11.3 in (300 dpi)

Keywords:

DRAWINGS AND PRINTS • DRAWINGS • EUROPE • HENRY WESTON KEEN • INK • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • PEN AND INK, AND WASH • UNITED KINGDOM