The Johnson Manuscript (manuscript transcript of the Rubens Pocketbook)

Maker

(engraver)
1637-1714

Christopher Norris (bookbinder)

Title

The Johnson Manuscript (manuscript transcript of the Rubens Pocketbook)

Date of Production

(mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Medium

ink, chalk and wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 19.9 cm
Width: 15.7 cm

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






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Johnson Manuscript page - end paper Johnson Manuscript page - flyleaf with collectors' book plates (recto) Johnson Manuscript title page (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - text 'De figuris humanis' Johnson Manuscript page - text of 'quare figurae humanae elementa tria' (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - end of 'quare figurae humanae elementa tria' text, start of 'De figurae humanis elementis cubo, circulo et triangulo' (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - continuation of 'De figurae humanis elementis cubo, circulo et triangulo' text (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - continuation of 'De figurae humanis elementis cubo, circulo et triangulo' text (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - end of 'De figurae humanis elementis cubo, circulo et triangulo' text (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - 'De forma virili' text Johnson Manuscript page - copy of verso of original Farnese Hercules leaf by Rubens (D.1978.PG.427) Johnson Manuscript page - David Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of three men from a Commedia dell'Arte performance Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of nude torsos and reclining nudes Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of Commedia dell'Arte figures: two men in conversation, one hunched over; a man pointing; a man kneeling and holding an instrument or weapon Johnson Manuscript page - multiple sketches of man in slouchy hat and short trousers gesticulating from a Commedia dell'Arte performance Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of four figures reclining or dead, nude or covered with a small cloth Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of dead figures and passage from the Aeneid Johnson Manuscript page - studies of reclining or dead figures including St Mark (copied from Tintoretto's 'Miracle of the Slave' now in the Accademia, Venice) and one of Cain seated with the jawbone Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of reclining figures and one man dragging another Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of contorted reclining figures and arms Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of reclining figures with arms stretched overhead or resting on the thigh Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of a man wearing a hat, cloak and codpiece gesticulating with a wide stance, from a Commedia dell'Arte performance Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of a man in a hat gesticulating, often in conversation with another man, from a Commedia dell'Arte performance Johnson Manuscript page - text 'vero modo per l'anatomia' Johnson Manuscript page - 'De numeris' text Johnson Manuscript page - continuation of 'De numeris' text (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - continuation of 'De numeris' text (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - continuation of 'De numeris' text (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - 'Quinta essentia' text (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - continuation of 'quinta essentia' text with sketches of a foot and hand (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - 'Quatuor elementa' text Johnson Manuscript page - end of 'quatuor elementa' text Johnson Manuscript page - 'De imitatione statuarum' text (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - 'Saturnus' text Johnson Manuscript page - statue of Jupiter Johnson Manuscript page - Flemish text (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - Rape of Deianira by the Centaur Nessus, sketch of two men grappling watched by a crowd Johnson Manuscript page - three sketches of Hercules bearing the burden of Atlas and one of Hercules wrestling Antaeus Johnson Manuscript page - text beginning 'Lex erat Lacedemonus..." Johnson Manuscript page - Atlas accompanied by text from the Aeneid Johnson Manuscript page - Atlas, side view of Farnese Hercules, and Hercules reclining on lion skin Johnson Manuscript page - cubic studies of Farnese Hercules and accompanying text (copied from D.1978.PG.427) Johnson Manuscript page - studies of arms Johnson Manuscript page - a man's torso with flexed right arm Johnson Manuscript page - Hercules wrestling Antaeus, profile of Hercules's head wearing the Nemean lionskin, Hercules stealing the cattle Johnson Manuscript page - Hercules with his club and four heads and shoulders of strong men taken from engravings of 'Massacre of the Innocents' and 'Martyrdom of St Lawrence' Johnson Manuscript page - text beginning 'Homo ex minori mundo...' Johnson Manuscript page - Hercules seated in profile and standing Johnson Manuscript page - Hercules Farnese and studies of arms and a soldier reaching from an engraving of 'Massacre of the Innocents' Johnson Manuscript page - two views of Hercules with accompanying text Johnson Manuscript page - Hercules Farnese hips and thighs Johnson Manuscript page - nudes attending the grill of St Lawrence, from Raimondi's engraving of 'The Martyrdom of St Lawrence' Johnson Manuscript page - head of Hercules compared with a bull and a lion Johnson Manuscript page - diagram of Hercules's head Johnson Manuscript page - a nude captain from an engraving of 'Massacre of the Innocents' and a faggot-bearer from 'Martyrdom of St Lawrence' Johnson Manuscript page - abdomen and thighs of Hercules Farnese Johnson Manuscript page - text beginning 'in quadratis debent...' Johnson Manuscript page - cubic studies of the Belvedere Torso Johnson Manuscript page - cubic studies of Hercules's head and torso Johnson Manuscript page - two diagrams of Hercules's head with accompanying text Johnson Manuscript page - studies using a triangle to draw human anatomy and accompanying text (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - studies of Hercules from the front and back Johnson Manuscript page - text from the Aeneid beginning 'talis prima dares caput...' Johnson Manuscript page - a man's torso bending over and Salome from behind Johnson Manuscript page - Hercules carrying the Erymanthian Boar Johnson Manuscript page - Saint Christopher, Hercules carrying the Erymanthian Boar Johnson Manuscript page- two studies of Laocoon, one with the serpents transformed into drapery Johnson Manuscript page - diagram of Galba's head after a sculpture Johnson Manuscript page - a bull's head Johnson Manuscript page - heads of Julius Caesar and a bull Johnson Manuscript page - Galba's neck Johnson Manuscript page - Galba's neck Johnson Manuscript page - Galba's head Johnson Manuscript page - a bull's head Johnson Manuscript page - Julius Caesar's neck, after a sculpture Johnson Manuscript page - start of text 'De forma Foeminea' (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - end of text 'De forma Foeminea' (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - text beginning 'In forma sive figura...' (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of full-length nude women after Dürer Johnson Manuscript page - Eve leaning against a tree and a nude woman seen from behind donning a cloak Johnson Manuscript page - female heads and hairstyles Johnson Manuscript page - head of a woman wearing a veil Johnson Manuscript page - head of Venus Johnson Manuscript page - satyress holding a bearded herm Johnson Manuscript page - a statue of Thusnelda seen from the front and back Johnson Manuscript page - classical Roman female sculptures after Boissard's 'Antiquitatum seu inscriptionum...' (1597 and 1600) Johnson Manuscript page - two female classical Roman sculptures after Boissard's 'Antiquitatum seu inscriptionum' (1597 and 1600) Johnson Manuscript page - classical Roman and Egyptian busts and monuments after Boissard's 'Antiquitatum seu inscriptionum...' (1597 and 1600) Johnson Manuscript page - a Sphinx seen from the side, after Boissard's 'Antiquitatum seu inscriptionum...' (1597 and 1600) (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - statue of a reclining lion observed by a child Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - feet and statue of faun with scabillum Johnson Manuscript page - two women dancing, one with a tambourine Johnson Manuscript page - text beginning 'vela subtilia veneri' with sketch of a man's head (recto) Johnson Manuscript page, start of text of 'pulchritudines equarum cum feminis coequales' (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - face of the Flora Farnese compared to a horse Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of a horse's head Johnson Manuscript page - face of the Flora Farnese compared to a horse Johnson Manuscript page - diagram of a horse's head Johnson Manuscript page - print of a horse from Leonardo's 'Treatise of Painting' (1721) Johnson Manuscript page - head of Julius Caesar sketched twice with accompanying text Johnson Manuscript page - neck of a horse Johnson Manuscript page - studies of the female and equine neck Johnson Manuscript page - torso of a Venus Pudica and a river god Johnson Manuscript page - torso of a Venus Pudica (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - text of 'De Pueris' Johnson Manuscript page - pilgrim woman copied from Antonio Bosio, 'Romo Sotterranea' (1632) Johnson Manuscript page - a Samaritan swinging a censer and Moses standing by baskets of bread or manna, copied from Antonio Bosio, 'Roma Sotterranea' (1632) Johnson Manuscript page - statue of a boy wearing a hat with open shirt, holding a ball Johnson Manuscript page - statue of Hermaphrodite Johnson Manuscript page - studies of the 'Boy boxer' Johnson Manuscript page - studies of a boy reclining and in bed Johnson Manuscript page - a muscular nude boy wearing a hat Johnson Manuscript page - muscular nude boy from previous page seen from behind Johnson Manuscript page - merman blowing a conch Johnson Manuscript page - studies of the 'Boy boxer' Johnson Manuscript page - print of a man winding up to throw a stone, from Leonardo da Vinci's 'Treatise of Painting' (1721) Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - print of archer from le Clerc's 'Principes de dessein' (recto) Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - print of a standing man, right hand on hip and left hand pointing down, from Leonardo's 'Treatise of painting' (1721) (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - print of a nude man standing on a plinth from Leonardo's 'Treatise of painting' (1721) Johnson Manuscript page - print of a nude man standing beside a tree stump, hand on hip, from Leonardo's 'Treatise of painting' (1721) Johnson Manuscript page - print of a nude man carrying a stone viewed from the front, from Leonardo's 'Treatise of painting' (1721) Johnson Manuscript page - print of a nude bearded man pointing down and to his left, from Leonardo's 'Treatise of Painting' (1721) Johnson Manuscript page - print of Hercules wrestling Antaeus, from Leonardo's 'Treatise of Painting' (1721) Johnson Manuscript page - print of side view of a man in heavy cloak walking against the wind, from Leonardo's 'Treatise of Painting' (1721) Johnson Manuscript page - print of a nude man seen from the side, pointing down with this right hand, from Leonardo's 'Treatise of Painting' (1721) Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - print of a nude man leaning on nothing, his back foot planted on a block, from Leonardo's 'Treatise of Painting' (1721) Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - print of two nude men pulling on a broken column, from Leonardo's 'Treatise of Painting' (1721) Johnson Manuscript page - print of a man in robes standing in a landscape scratching his chin, from Leonardo's 'Treatise of Painting' (1721) Johnson Manuscript page - three motifs of a cista mystica from a Bacchic Sarcophagus Johnson Manuscript page - four children from sculptural group of the River Nile (Belvedere) Johnson Manuscript page - child copied from sculptural group of the River Nile (Belvedere) Johnson Manuscript page - child copied from sculptural group of the River Nile (Belvedere) Johnson Manuscript page - three satyr heads Johnson Manuscript page - man's head with wide eyes and open mouth Johnson Manuscript page - man's head with furrowed brows and downturned mouth Johnson manuscript page - man's head with curly hair and open mouth, looking up Johnson Manuscript page - man's head with pointy hat, closed mouth and large pupils Johnson Manuscript page - double bust of Hercules and Mercury (as an old man) (recto) Johnson Manuscript page - double bust of Democritus and Heraclitus Johnson Manuscript page - double bust of elderly Venus and Mercury Johnson Manuscript page - double bust of Comedy and Tragedy Johnson Manuscript page - two parade helmets, one winged with a dragon Johnson Manuscript page - four parade helmets, one winged and one designed as a ram Johnson Manuscript page - two breasplates and two parade helmets Johnson Manuscript page - a helmet, half of a breastplate and faulds Johnson Manuscript page - a breastplate Johnson Manuscript page - a breastplate Johnson Manuscript page - two breastplates Johnson Manuscript page - four studies of laced boots Johnson Manuscript page - four studies of laced boots and sandals Johnson Manuscript page - printed title page from 'Divers Habillemens des Anciens Grecs et Romains' by Sebastien le Clerc Johnson Manuscript page - print of soldier standing with a staff, viewed from behind, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of soldier with a Roman standard, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of soldier holding a staff and pointing down and to his left, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of soldier standing with a Roman standard and a dagger, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of soldier seen from behind, pointing up to his left, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of bald man in robes carrying an axe over his shoulder, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of soldier in a tunic holding a shield, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of man in profile pointing to shapes on a tablet, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of man looking at viewer with large round tablet propped on his knee, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of man in voluminous robes leaning on a plinth, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of man in a toga gesturing to his left, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of bearded man in a toga gesturing to his right, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of bearded man seen from behind pointing to his left, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of bearded man in robes holding a book, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of man in a toga with tonsure seen from behind, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of man in robes swinging a censer, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of woman in profile carrying a censer, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of man seen from behind carrying a pitcher on a platter, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of woman leaning on a plinth beside a globe or mirror, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of woman in a toga leaning on a plinth and looking over her right shoulder, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of woman in a toga gesturing to her left while looking right, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of frontal view of a man in a toga looking to his left, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of woman with bared breast and veil kneeling on clouds, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of frontal view of woman in a hood and voluminous robes with eyes closed, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of woman carrying a censer, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of woman in a toga gesturing to her left while looking right, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of woman in a toga leaning on a plinth and looking over her left shoulder, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of frontal view of woman in a hood and voluminous robes with eyes closed, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of woman leaning on a plinth beside a globe or mirror, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of woman with bared breast and veil kneeling on clouds, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - blank page with a plate now removed Johnson Manuscript page - print of bearded man in robes holding a book, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of bearded man in a toga gesturing to his right, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of man in profile pointing to shapes on a tablet, from le Clerc's 'Divers Habillemens' Johnson Manuscript page - print of putti painting, clapping and observing a medallion displaying wings, from le Clerc's 'Principes de Dessein' Johnson Manuscript page - print of two nude boys carrying ewers Johnson Manuscript page - print of nude woman with lifted knee seen from behind, from le Clerc's 'Principes de Dessein' Johnson Manuscript page - print of putti sitting and reclining in a landscape, one blowing a conch, from le Clerc's 'Principes de Dessein' Johnson Manuscript page - jugs, pitchers and oil lamps Johnson Manuscript page - De Montagu's spoons, one bearing a seated Mercury facing a goat and cockerel, the other a dolphin Johnson Manuscript page - two decorated pedestals Johnson Manuscript page - a pedestal with griffins, a seated mother and child Johnson Manuscript page - pedestal with a man carrying an ewer, below a sketch of two intertwined dolphins Johnson Manuscript page - ends of two plinths, one with the Three Graces, the other with Sphinxes Johnson Manuscript page - sculptural group on plinth of mourners around a deathbed Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - print of ten geometric diagrams using faces, a hand and buildings- Table II from Leonardo's 'Treatise of Painting' (1721) Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - print of figures from 'The History of England' Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - print of head of a bearded man in profile (Silenus?) with a crown of leaves Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - feet and statue of faun with scabillum (recto) Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - print of an empty monument with putti and women in togas, from Vico's 'Augustarum imagines...' (1558) Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - two prints by Enea Vico: a blank monument with putti and a pitcher, laid down over a bust portrait of Agrippina, from 'Augustarum imagines...' (1558)

Provenance

possibly Albert Rubens (1614-1657); bought by Captain Maurice Johnson, 1742/44 for his father, Maurice Johnson Sr., Spalding (1688-1755); by descent in Johnson and Marsden families; W.A. Marsden (bookplate, 1897); Christopher Marsden (bookplate, 1930); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 23-24 March, 1970, lot 179; purchased there via Maggs Bros. (London) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£2,600); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Rubens. The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, 17/10/2017-21/01/2018; Stadel Museum, Frankfurt, 08/02/2018-03/06/2018

Rubens's Theoretical Notebook (working title), Rubenshuis, Antwerp, 19/10/2013-19/01/2014

Rubens - A Master in the Making, National Gallery, London, 26/10/2005-15/01/2006 ...More

Rubens - Paintings, Drawings and Prints in the Princes Gate
Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 06/10/1988-08/01/1989 ...Less

Literature

McGrath, Elizabeth, Bert Schepers, Nils Büttner, Gregory Martin, Jeremy Wood, Eveliina Juntunen, Gerlinde Gruber and Fiona Healy, Mythological Subjects. II. Hercules to Olympus, CRLB XI, 2 vols., London, 2022
pp. 27, 31 note 22 (folio 36), 50 note 11 (folios 63-64), 206-210 under no. 63, 440 note 46 (folio 35)

Logan, Anne-Marie in association with Kristin Lohse Belkin, Anne-Marie Logan in association with Kristin Lohse Belkin, The Drawings of Peter Paul Rubens. A Critical Catalogue, Volume One (1590-1608), 2 vols, Turnhout, 2021
I, pp. 118-19 under no. 87

Lusheck, Catherine H., ‘Leonardo’s brambles and their afterlife in Rubens’s studies of nature’ in Constance J. Moffatt and Sara Taglialagamba (eds.), Leonardo da Vinci: nature and architecture, Leiden, 2019, pp. 123-67
p. 150 note 95 ...More

Thielemann, Andreas, ‘Stone to Flesh: Rubens’ Treatise De imiatione statuarum’ in Cordula van Wyhe (ed.), Rubens and the Human Body, Turnhout, 2018, pp. 41-101
pp. 75-77

Rubens. The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, 2017-18
cat. no. 28

Lusheck, Catherine, Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing, London, 2017
pp. xxv, xxvii, 28, 43 notes 180 and 183, 163, 178, 194, 200-01, 203, 205-06, 210-11, 214, 229 note 158
figs. 4.17 (fol. 1, erroneously listed as fol. 75r), 4.19 (fol. 57r, though with wrong accession number), 4.21 (fol. 47r)

Dorotheum, Vienna, Old Master paintings, 19 April 2016
under lot 73

McGrath, Elizabeth, Gregory Martin, Fiona Healey, Bert Schepers, Carl van de Velde and Karolien de Clippel, Mythological Subjects. I. Achilles to The Graces, CRLB XI, 2 vols., London and Turnhout, 2016
I, pp. 125 under no. 6 (fols. 74r-75v), 145 note 18 under no. 7a, 408 under no. 41 (fol. 111)
II, fig. 337 (folio 111)

Göttler; Christone and Tine L. Meganck, 'Sites of art, nature and the antique in the Spanish Netherlands' in 'Embattled territory: the circulation of knowledge in the Spanish Netherlands', Ghent 2015 - pp. 333-70
pp. 365-67
an oblique reference to 'transcripts' of the original Pocketbook with no explicit reference to Johnson MS, except for fig. 19, which is erroneously listed as fol. 281 verso, but is verso of D.1978.PG.427

Turner, Jane Shoaf and Christopher White, Dutch and Flemish drawings in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London 2014
p. 440
Under no. 519

van Beneden, Ben, 'Rubens: maverick artist. The master's theoretical notebook' in 'The Rubenianum Quarterly', 2013
pp. 1-4
Fig. p. 4

L'Europe de Rubens, Musée du Louvre-Lens 2013
p. 196

Thielemann, Andreas 'Rubens’ Traktat de imitatione staturaum’ in Ursula Rombach and Peter Seiler (eds.), Imitatio als Transformation. Theorie und Praxis der Antikennachahmung in der Frühen Neuzeit, Petersberg, 2012, pp. 95-146
pp. 119-20
pl. 16 (erroneously captioned as D.1978.PG.427, but is MS.1978.PG.1.42 (fol. 40)

Wood, Jeremy, Rubens: copies and adaptations from Renaissance and later artists. Italian artists. III Artists working in central Italy and France (CRLB), London 2011
I, p. 32

Wood, Jeremy, Rubens: copies and adaptations from Renaissance and later masters. Italian artists. II. Titian and North Italian art (CRLB), London 2010
I, pp. 343 under no. 147, 377 under App. Correggio 1-2, 400 note. 27 under no. 157

Jaffé, David, 'Rubens's lost "pocketbook": some new thoughts' in 'The Burlington Magazine', February 2010 - pp. 94-98; 152, 1283
pp. 94, 96-98
in file

Barone, Juliana, ‘Rubens and Leonardo on Motion: Figures, Inscriptions, and Texts’ in Claire Farago (ed.), Re-reading Leonardo: The Treatise on Painting across Europe, Farnham, 2009, pp. 441-72
pp. 441, 449-53
figs. 17.4b (fol. 48r), 17.4c (fol. 60r)

Vander Auwera, Joost, Sabine van Sprang and Inga Rossi-Schrimpf, Rubens, a genius at work: the works of Peter Paul Rubens in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium reconsidered, Tielt 2007
pp. 52-64
figs. 1 (fol. 1), 6 (fol. 51)
essay by Tine Meganck, 'Rubens on the Human Figure: Theory, Practice and Metaphysics', pp. 52-64

Barone, Juliana, 'Rubens and Leonardo on motion: figures, inscriptions and texts' in 'Raccolta Vinciana', Milan 2007 - pp. 343-93; 32
pp. 345-46, 367-68, 372, 374, 375-78n62
in file

Rubens - A Master in the Making, National Gallery, London, 2005-2006
pp. 22, 24-26
Fig. p. PG.1.67 repr. as fig. 14 on p. 24
essay author: David Jaffé with Amanda Bradley

A House of Art: Rubens as Collector, Rubenshuis, Antwerp, 2004
pp. 18-23
fig. 12 on p. 20 (folio 51)

Balis, A., ‘Rubens und Inventio. Der Beitrag seines theoretischen Studienbuches’, in 'Rubens passioni: Kultur der Leidenschaten im Barock (Rekonstruktion der Künste, 3)', Göttingen 2001 - pp. 11-40
pp. 17, 20, 23, 26, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34
Fig. p. pls. 2 (PG.1.18), 6 (PG.1.42), 7 (PG.1.51), 9 (PG.1.68)

van der Meulen, Marjorie, Rubens copies after the Antique (CRLB), 3 vols, London 1994
vol. I pp. 1, 13, 48, 59, 71-73, 75-79, 87, 123-24, 127, 144, 250-53, 258, 262; vol. II, pp. 7, 18, 27, 31-32, 35, 41-42, 44-48, 59, 71-73, 87-89, 92-93, 95, 105-08, 119, 146-47, 151-54, 228-29
Fig. p. vol. I, Text ills. 71-75; vol. III, figs 10, 11-12, 37-38, 40-44, 47-49, 106-107, 143, 170-172, 192-193, 244-246, 255, 404
see records for individual pages for further details

Rubens - Paintings, Drawings and Prints in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1988-1989
cat. no. 58
no. 58 and pp. 17 under no. 19, 23 under no. 27, 50-51
Fig. p. p. 51 (PG.1.10 only)

Sotheby's, Monaco, Tableaux et dessins anciens...provenant de la succession du Marquis de Ganay, 1 Dec. 1989
under lot 69
in file

McGrath, Elizabeth, 'Rubens's Musathena' in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1987; L
p. 245
in file

Christie's, London, Old master drawings, 6-7 July 1987
p. 60
in file

Bordeaux, Jean-Luc, François Le Moyne and His Generation: 1688-1737, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France 1985
pp86f

Bolten, Jaap, Method and Practice: Dutch and Flemish Drawing Books 1600-1750, Landau, 1985
p. 115
fig. a on p. 110 (fol. 46)
manuscript not referred to by name in the text, says ‘the text was copied in two manuscripts which are still extant today', but the fig. caption does cite as MS Johnson

Muller, Jeffrey M., 'Rubens's theory and practice of imitation' in 'Art Bulletin', June 1982; LXIV, 2
pp. 229, 236
Fig. p. D.1978.PG.427 repr. as fig. 3 on p. 237
in file

Sotheby's, London, Catalogue of valuable printed books autograph letters and historical documents, 23-24 March 1970
lot 179 and pp. 5-6
Fig. p. MS.1978.PG.1.2 verso and D.1978.PG.427 verso repr.
only the lot in file

Jaffé, Michael, Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook, London 1966
vol. I, pp. 16-31, 35-36, 39-47, 77-78n3, 78-80n4, 83-84n22, 95-100n64, 100-01n66, 303-04; vol. II, pp. 222, 226, 228-29, 232-37, 239-45
see individual page records for details

Mariette, P.J., Abecedario, 1858-9; V
pp. 67-68

Waagen, Peter Paul Rubens, his Life and Genius, 1840
pp. 128-29

Walpole, Horace, Anecdotes of painting in England, 1762
vol. II, pp. 86-87 ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: See individual records for inscriptions on each page.

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