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

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

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1.91

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









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

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" [?].

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