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Johnson Manuscript page - text beginning 'in quadratis debent...'

Title

Johnson Manuscript page - text beginning 'in quadratis debent...'

Date of Production

(mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.1 cm
Width: 15.9 cm

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1.57 (fol. 55)

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, fragment: upper half of Arms of Amsterdam.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, brown ink, Rubens’s original foliation: “fol 208.b.”; whole page, brown ink, explanation of a diagram of Hercules’s head: “in quadratis debent inveniri angúli / eqúilateres / in circúlis centrúm / in piramidibús punctum / fol. 206.b. / ex circúlo carnositas et elevation dorsiet pectoris / et sic in singulis usque ad infinitum / sic o[mn]es lineae exteriores et interiores concavitas / conveionis […] / A – ex circuli va[riati]one múscúli superciliis impondentes / plus q[ua]m frons ipsa sint eminentes / B – item elevatio nasi aquiline / F – item rotonditas oculorúm sive subterlabentibus múscúlis / vel rugis cútis. / D – ex e circulo barba maxillaris valde larga / ad circulúm integrúm faciei / C – cervix et calli latera valude carnosa ad circúlúm / integri capitis / E – barba circulariter accrescens maxillae / G – barba sub monte crassa ad circulúm faciei / H – gúttúr carnosúm circúlus barbam ad circulum / capitis”; lower right corner, graphite, folio number: “55”.

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