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Johnson Manuscript page - start of text 'De forma Foeminea' (recto)
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cat. no. 28
McGrath, Elizabeth, Gregory Martin, Fiona Healey, Bert Schepers, Carl van de Velde and Karolien de Clippel, Mythological Subjects. I. Achilles to The Graces, CRLB XI, 2 vols., London and Turnhout, 2016
I, p. 125 under no. 6
van der Meulen, Marjorie, Rubens copies after the Antique (CRLB), 3 vols, London 1994
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Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, graphite, Rubens’s original foliation(?): “215”; whole page, brown ink: “+ / De forma Foeminea / In forma foeminea, Circulus sive figura […] [not fully transcribed, continues on the verso]; lower right corner, graphite, folio number: “74”. Verso: whole page, brown ink, partly transcribed from Jaffé 1966 as it also appears in the Chatsworth MS though with numerous variations, as well as on later folio MS.1978.PG.1.94 (fol. 90): “et secúndúm prorietates et qualitates […] Caput non magnum aut carnosum. / oculi magni et nigri. / collúm altúm at largúm. / pectus valde latum. / Crines aut juba longa; / Dorsum breve, et planúm cum amplitudine / Spatiúm laterale, ab axilla usquae ad coxam valde breve / Brevis aliús venter nec magnús nec parrús, nonqua[m] deorsúm / deficiens, vel propendens. / nates non longae aút pendentes, sed magnae et largae túm / dúrae carnis, et valde carnosee… / vulva parva. / Clúnes in Eqúa ferè ad genúa crassi (qúae sunt femora) / praecipúe ab eo latere úbi ventri armectúntúr. / pedes non magni sed altius elevate. / Primús Color in Equarum crinibús seú potiús Jubus pul: / cherrimús est candidús, qúiin foeminis blondús est, et comae / dicúntúr argentae, aút aúrae. / secundus color, fúscus niger.”
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