Charles The Hammer (Original)

Charles The Hammer art by Jack Keay

Charles The Hammer (Original)


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Artist: Jack Keay
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 12" x 8" (300mm x 210mm)
Date: 1974
Code: KeayJackSOF2

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Jack Keay.

The painting shows troops of Charles the Hammer invading what proved to be a deserted Muslim camp at the start of the second day of a battle at Poitiers between Christian French and Saracens.

Because of the heavy blows Duke Charles showered upon the Saracens he was called Charles the Hammer. Charles was the Grandfather of the greatest of early French Kings - Charlemagne.

Originally published in Look and Learn issue 664, 5th October 1974.

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  • Artist Biography
    Jack "John" Edwin Keay (10 May 1907 - 1999; King's Norton, UK)
    Artist who contributed a variety of illustrations and covers to Look and Learn. When he signed his work, it was usually as “Jack Keay”. Jack Keay was born in King's Norton, Worcestershire, on 10 May 1907. Little is known about Keay's career, but he was a popular book cover artist who worked for Pan, Panther, Hutchinson, Fontana and Four Square in the 1957-62 period.

    Keay illustrated a number of books in the 1970s and 1980s, including The Change of Life by Muriel E. Landau (1971), Gunfighters of the Wild West by Eric Inglefield (1978), American Civil War by Philip Clark (1988), American War of Independence by Philip Clark (1988) and Viking Explorers by Rupert Matthews (1989). He died in Hounslow, London, in 1999, aged 92.

    Jack Keay is not to be mistaken for John R. Keay (qv) who also contributed to Look and Learn.
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