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Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - two prints by Enea Vico: a blank monument with putti and a pitcher, laid down over a bust portrait of Agrippina, from 'Augustarum imagines...' (1558)

Maker

(artist)
1523-1567

Title

Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - two prints by Enea Vico: a blank monument with putti and a pitcher, laid down over a bust portrait of Agrippina, from 'Augustarum imagines...' (1558)

Date of Production

(circa) 1558

Medium

engraving and etching on laid paper laid down over another engraving and etching, both trimmed; the top print has suffered loss at the lower left corner which has been filled in using graphite and brown ink

Dimensions

Height: 16 cm (whole page)
Width: 12.1 cm (whole page)

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1.202

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.341.257-319 (XXIII and XXIV)

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: none.

Inscription: On print now concealed underneath (only visible via transmitted light), Recto: all printed in black: around central roundel: “AGRIPPINA. M.F. MAT. C. CAESARIS AVGVSTI“; lower centre on plinth: “AGRIPPINAE M.F AVGVSTI AL DIVI / AVG NEPTIS VXORIS GERMANICI / CAESARIS MATRIS CAESARIS / AVG GERMANICI PRINCIPIS / MEMORIAE; lower right corner: “XXIIII“. On concealed print, Verso: lower right corner: “K“. On visible print on top lower centre, printed in black on urn: “XXIII“; lower left corner written in brown ink: “Aeneas Vico delin &. sc.“.

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