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Johnson Manuscript page - 'De numeris' text

Title

Johnson Manuscript page - 'De numeris' text

Date of Production

(mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Medium

pen and grey ink, brown ink used for corrections and added diacritics (recto and verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.2 cm
Width: 16 cm

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1.25 (fol. 23)

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

Exhibition History

Rubens. The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, 17/10/2017-21/01/2018; Stadel Museum, Frankfurt, 08/02/2018-03/06/2018

Literature

Rubens. The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, 2017-18
cat. no. 28

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre edge, cut off in binding: bottom of a foolscap with five points (probably of German origin, according to Peter Bower's 2017 report. However when matched with the heads of Foolscaps throughout the MS it appears there are actually seven points, and it matches Heawood 2002 - dated 1674, on Dutch paper in a London collection).

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, brown ink, Rubens’s original foliation: “86 b”; whole page, grey ink, with diacritics added in brown ink: “a prima pars paginae 86 / 86.b. de numeris L 2a ps[macron over both letters] paginae […]” [not fully transcribed]; lower right corner, graphite, folio number: “23”.

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