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Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - print of an empty monument with putti and women in togas, from Vico's 'Augustarum imagines...' (1558)

Maker

(artist)
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

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1.201

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

Bartsch, Adam, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1803-21
XV.341.257 to 319 (XV)

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.".

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