Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - print of head of a bearded man in profile (Silenus?) with a crown of leaves

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Title

Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - print of head of a bearded man in profile (Silenus?) with a crown of leaves

Date of Production

1600 - 1699?

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 11 cm (whole page)
Width: 9.7 cm (whole page)

Object Number

MS.1978.PG.1.199

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper left within the plate, etched in black in reverse: “02”. Verso: upper centre edge, brown ink: "Sileni in ot[...]ina T[..]iro [?]".

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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