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A poor patient telling his doctor that he wants to stay alive because oysters will be cheap again Wall Art
ART BY: Charles Samuel Keene
A poor patient telling his doctor that he wants to stay alive because oysters will be cheap again Wall Art
ART BY: Charles Samuel Keene
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A poor patient telling his doctor that he wants to stay alive because oysters will be cheap again is a humorous pictures, wood engravings by Charles Samuel Keene (1823–1891). The artist is catalogued as English. The original is held by the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 4900 × 6000 px (5.7 MB). You will find it among Prints and Impressionism, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 143 works by Charles Samuel Keene, a British artist.
Charles Samuel Keene was an English artist and illustrator, who worked in black and white.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Charles Samuel Keene →
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