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Johnson Manuscript page - a Sphinx seen from the side, after Boissard's 'Antiquitatum seu inscriptionum...' (1597 and 1600) (recto)

Title

Johnson Manuscript page - a Sphinx seen from the side, after Boissard's 'Antiquitatum seu inscriptionum...' (1597 and 1600) (recto)

Date of Production

(mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Medium

graphite, black chalk and grey wash (recto), graphite, pen and brown ink, grey wash (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.6 cm
Width: 15.8 cm

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1.89 (fol. 86)

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

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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

Jaffé, Michael, Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook, London 1966
vol. I, pp. 97-99n64
Fig. p. vol. I, fig. LXX (verso)

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre edge, fragment: lower portion of shield with Basle crozier and pendant monogram (Paper 1 in Peter Bower's 2017 report - paper from Basle).

Inscription: Recto: upper left, graphite: “statua / femina / coronata / spigis“; centre, graphite, copied from the original engraving: “In domo card: Caes? ..“.; lower right corner, graphite, folio number: “86“. Verso: upper right edge, brown ink, copied from the original engraving: “in palatio Capitolino“.

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