Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - feet and statue of faun with scabillum

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Title

Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - feet and statue of faun with scabillum

Date of Production

(mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Medium

graphite, pen and grey and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 16 cm

Object Number

MS.1978.PG.1.91

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre edge, fragment: upper half of a basilisk (Paper 1 in Peter Bower's 2017 report - Swiss paper made in Basle).

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, grey ink with a correction in brown: “scabilli ni fallor rectè / sunt in statua antiqua / quae extat florentiae apud magnum / ducem Etruriae. Lutatiús ad illud statii / et ad inspirata rotari buxa / buxa tibia vel scabillum quod in sacris / tibicines pede sonare consueverunt / hinc crepitus scabillorum apud suetonium et Arnobium / Carolus tamen langius Scabillos putat esse scalme?en [this corrected in brown ink] / scaliger in copam cascabillos hispanorum cui adiungit / se casaubonus ad suetonium salmasias vera scabilla putat esse / que pedibus terebantur"; lower right corner, graphite, very faint: "2" [?].

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

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. II, pp. 31-32
Fig. p. vol. III, fig. 10
Jaffé, Michael, Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook, London 1966
vol. I, pp. 45-47, 97n64
Fig. p. vol. I, fig. LXXXIII

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