This image is in the public domain (free of copyright restrictions), and as such we offer a high-resolution image of it. See our image rights statement.

 

This and 80 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Sketchbook, Sketchbook, Early Ohio.

Object Timeline

1984

  • We acquired this object.

2018

2025

  • You found it!

Sketchbook Folio, Sketchbook Page: 17th-century Portraits

This is a Sketchbook folio. It was created by Kenyon Cox. It is dated 1875 and we acquired it in 1984. Its medium is graphite on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was bequest of Allyn Cox. It is credited Bequest of Allyn Cox.

Its dimensions are

10.1 × 17.1 cm (4 × 6 3/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, along lower right edge: Dates area of the deaths / of character-; portraits in upper row labeled: 1676., 1677; portraits in second row labeled: 1680, 1682, 1683-4.; portraits in third row labeled: 1684. / (virtuous woman)., very much jeweled and / embroidered 1685- / probably some years before.; portraits in bottom row labeled: 1689., coats and great p(?) wigs / common–yet this costume / still appearing -1700, Queen of Charles II / 1705.

Cite this object as

Sketchbook Folio, Sketchbook Page: 17th-century Portraits; Kenyon Cox (American, 1856–1919); USA; graphite on paper; 10.1 × 17.1 cm (4 × 6 3/4 in.); Bequest of Allyn Cox; 1984-86-5-75

This image is in the public domain (free of copyright restrictions). You can copy, modify, and distribute this work without contacting the Smithsonian. For more information, visit the Smithsonian’s Terms of Use page.

If you would like to cite this object in a Wikipedia article please use the following template:

<ref name=CH>{{cite web |url=https://www-4.collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18803247/ |title=Sketchbook Folio, Sketchbook Page: 17th-century Portraits |author=Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |accessdate=8 February 2025 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution}}</ref>