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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)

Maker

Copy after
(author)
1452-1519

Title

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)

Date of Production

1721

Medium

etching on laid paper, partly folded over as removed from another book

Dimensions

Height: 21 cm (whole page)
Width: 26.7 cm (whole page)

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1.197

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

Keywords







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

Literature

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, upper centre edge, fragment: bottoms of letters, possibly "G F"?

Inscription: Recto, all printed in black ink: upper centre edge: “Tab.II.”; upper right corner: “To fold out fronting page 178.”; ten diagrams each labelled from “Fig: 1.” to “Fig: 10.” and various lines in each diagram labelled with letters of the alphabet.

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