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)

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Maker

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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)

Object Number

MS.1978.PG.1.197

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

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.

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

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