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Johnson Manuscript page - double bust of Hercules and Mercury (as an old man) (recto)

Title

Johnson Manuscript page - double bust of Hercules and Mercury (as an old man) (recto)

Date of Production

(mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Medium

black chalk, pen and grey ink, grey wash (recto), pen and grey ink (verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 21 cm
Width: 16 cm

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1.138 (fol. 120)

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Related Works

The Johnson Manuscript (manuscript transcript of the Rubens Pocketbook)

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 (book-plate, 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

Literature

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

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

Jaffé, Michael, Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook, London 1966
vol. I, p. 78n3

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre edge, fragment: lower half of a foolscap with five points visible above "4" above three Medici balls (matches Heawood 2002 - dated 1674 on a collection of Dutch paper in London).

Inscription: Recto: lower centre of drawing, grey ink, symbol: “T“; lower centre, brown ink, Maurice Johnson senior's hand according to Jaffé 1966: “Hercules Mercury / v. Hartleys Britannia Romana 343“; lower right corner, graphite, folio number: “120“. Verso: upper left, grey ink, symbol from recto: “T“ and following, in grey ink: “Ebúrneús Salivús ex una parte et Judús / cloviús / Niger Aethrops ex ebono ab altra parto / cumdentes súbsidente albi ex Ebore Inferantur / in[?] et oculi / vide apud pansaniam aliquos statúas ex Electro/ factas [...]ewelen [...] Emmer[?]“.

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