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Johnson Manuscript page - Flemish text (recto)

Title

Johnson Manuscript page - Flemish text (recto)

Date of Production

(mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.1 cm
Width: 16 cm

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1.36 (fol. 34)

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

van der Meulen, Marjorie, Rubens copies after the Antique (CRLB), 3 vols, London 1994
vol. I, pp. 71, 72n12; vol. II, pp. 35, 41-42

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, brown ink, Rubens's original foliation: “178.a.”; whole page, in brown ink, a paragraph transcribed from van der Meulen (CRLB) 1994, p. 35n6: “ich hebbe [rest not fully transcribed] / het aengeischt ooch heel gelyck aen de in woonders van / africa een ront hooft, een breet aensicht meer hebbende / eenen camúes neús oft platen neús, als eenen afhangen: / de ofte arents neús, mooriaensche lippen en / eenen corten hals en uÿtstekende met schauders / [rest not transcribed]”; lower right corner, graphite, folio number: “34”. Verso: upper quarter of page, brown ink, continued from recto: “gebouden, lange handen ende gants groot van […]” [not fully transcribed].

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