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Kenyon Cox: English: Drawing, "The Blessing of Sleep," study for a poster for Paine's Celery Compound, 1899   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Kenyon Cox  (1856–1919)  wikidata:Q933739 q:cs:Kenyon Cox
 
Kenyon Cox
Alternative names
Kenyon C. Cox
Description American painter, illustrator, writer, art historian and university teacher
Date of birth/death 27 October 1856 Edit this at Wikidata 17 March 1919 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Warren Category:New York
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artist QS:P170,Q933739
Title
English: Drawing, "The Blessing of Sleep," study for a poster for Paine's Celery Compound, 1899
Description
English: Draped woman at left with attributes of Hypnos (winged head and poppy) hovers at left in front of a window that opens out on to blackness. Her arm is outstreched over a reclining man, recumbent on a low divan at right. He is half nude, propped on one elbow with his other arm behind his head. At right, an oil lamp burns atop a columnar pillar.
Date 1899
date QS:P571,+1899-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium graphite, brush and balack and gray wash on tan laid paper
Dimensions Overall: 40.6 x 31.8 cm (16 x 12 1/2 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1960-83-297
Inscriptions Watermark: Egyptian Linen Geo. B. Hurd & Co.
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: In graphite lower left: The Blessing of Sleep / Sketch of Composition / 1899.

In graphite lower right corner: Poster / Paine's Celery Compound

  • Period: Classical Revival
  • Country: United States
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