Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - print of an empty monument with putti and women in togas, from Vico's 'Augustarum imagines...' (1558)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
© Courtauld
© Courtauld
Maker
(artist)
1523-1567
1523-1567
Title
Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - print of an empty monument with putti and women in togas, from Vico's 'Augustarum imagines...' (1558)
Date of Production
(circa) 1558
Medium
engraving and etching in black ink on laid paper, trimmed
Dimensions
Height: 16 cm
Width: 12.1 cm
Width: 12.1 cm
Object Number
MS.1978.PG.1.201
Mode of Acquisition
Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978
Credit
Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right upper edge: too fragmentary to identify.
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, printed in black: "XV"; lower right corner, written in grey ink: "AEn Vico delin & Sc.".
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, printed in black: "XV"; lower right corner, written in grey ink: "AEn Vico delin & Sc.".
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
cat. no. 28
Bartsch, Adam, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1803-21
XV.341.257 to 319 (XV)
XV.341.257 to 319 (XV)
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