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Portrait of a Man (Robert Knox?)

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Attributed to Robert White
1645-1703

Portrait of a Man (Robert Knox?)

4 1/2 x 3 5/16 inches (114 x 84 mm)
Graphite, some stumping, on vellum.
2004.49:3

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Fol. 1, no. 3 in the Bull Album.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left in pen and black ink: Captain Knox; at lower center in graphite, partly effaced: Capt. [period under "t"] Knox; (signed with initials?) at lower right: RW.; on verso in center in graphite: Capt. [period under "t"] Knox; at lower right of decorative border in graphite: R. White Fect. [period under "t"]; on album sheet beneath decorative border in graphite: Captain Robert Knox born about 1641 Cousin / to Strype the historian - Imprisoned 19 1/2 years / in Ceylon of which place he published / the first account; beyond upper left corner of decorative border: x 3; beyond upper right corner of decorative border: 3.
Associated names
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806, former owner.
Thibaudeau, Alphonse Wyatt, 1840-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 12, repr.
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Classification
Century Drawings
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Department