Johnson Manuscript page - studies using a triangle to draw human anatomy and accompanying text (recto)
Johnson Manuscript page - diagram of Hercules Farnese's head and accompanying text (verso)
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Johnson Manuscript page - diagram of Hercules Farnese's head and accompanying text (verso)
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Width: 15.9 cm
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Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, brown ink, Rubens’s original foliation: “207.b.”; upper centre, brown ink: “humeroru latitudo et triangulo / punctum in pube / pectoris latitúdinis / punctum in umbliculo / et sic celeris membris”; centre, brown ink: “hinc o[mn]is carnositas / et crassitudo partin / superiarúm / pectoris dorsi spapaloru [sic for “scapularum”] / ventris vero et infe= / rioru / […]ilitas et […]rictio”; lower centre, brown ink: “femoris crassitudo úreprehensibilis / vel eximia in parúúm usque pedem desmens / ex piramides va[riati]one”; lower right corner, graphite, folio number: “59”. Verso: upper right corner, brown ink, Rubens’s original foliation: “fol 208.a.”; upper centre, brown ink: “Triangúlús / quadratum p[er]fectum corpus aut circulare p[er[fectúm / non misceatúr aut convertatur nisi in triangulúm / equilateralem solet p[er]fectúm”; below and to the left, brown ink: “ex antiqúo”; centre right, brown ink, with lines corresponding to the drawn diagram: “A – latitudo fortis / B – et temporúm plenitude / C genarum exilitas inferi[…] / E distantia angulorum / et latitude superior / nasi in angustum / desinens / D – barba [n]o[n] obstantibus / angulis latioribus / ad mentúm t[a]men notet[u]r / angustia quedam / F cervix latam angústu / desinat / gulae”; lower left, brown ink: “fol 208.b. / coronati corona papúleae / ex pausania”.
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cat. no. 28
vol. I, p. 71; vol. II, p. 45 (verso)
Fig. p. vol. III, fig. 40 (verso)
vol. I, p. 18
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