Johnson Manuscript page - Atlas accompanied by text from the Aeneid (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - two views of Hercules with accompanying text (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - head of a woman wearing a veil (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - child copied from sculptural group of the River Nile (Belvedere) (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Sébastien Le Clerc, the elder

Johnson Manuscript page - blank page with a plate now removed (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Peter Paul Rubens

The Entombment of Christ 1615-16

Peter Paul Rubens

God the Father supported by angels (after Pordenone) 1600-1603

Peter Paul Rubens

The Johnson Manuscript (manuscript transcript of the Rubens Pocketbook) (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Britain 19th century

Johnson Manuscript page - flyleaf with collectors' book plates (recto) 1735, 1897 and 1930

Johnson Manuscript title page (recto) 1744 and 1751

Johnson Manuscript page - text 'De figuris humanis' (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - text of 'quare figurae humanae elementa tria' (recto) (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - end of 'quare figurae humanae elementa tria' text, start of 'De figurae humanis elementis cubo, circulo et triangulo' (recto) (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - continuation of 'De figurae humanis elementis cubo, circulo et triangulo' text (recto) (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - continuation of 'De figurae humanis elementis cubo, circulo et triangulo' text (recto) (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - end of 'De figurae humanis elementis cubo, circulo et triangulo' text (recto) (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - 'De forma virili' text (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - David (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of three men from a Commedia dell'Arte performance (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of nude torsos and reclining nudes (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of Commedia dell'Arte figures: two men in conversation, one hunched over; a man pointing; a man kneeling and holding an instrument or weapon (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - multiple sketches of man in slouchy hat and short trousers gesticulating from a Commedia dell'Arte performance (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of four figures reclining or dead, nude or covered with a small cloth (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of dead figures and passage from the Aeneid (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - studies of reclining or dead figures including St Mark (copied from Tintoretto's 'Miracle of the Slave' now in the Accademia, Venice) and one of Cain seated with the jawbone (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of reclining figures and one man dragging another (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - copy of verso of original Farnese Hercules leaf by Rubens (D.1978.PG.427) (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of contorted reclining figures and arms (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of reclining figures with arms stretched overhead or resting on the thigh (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of a man wearing a hat, cloak and codpiece gesticulating with a wide stance, from a Commedia dell'Arte performance (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - sketches of a man in a hat gesticulating, often in conversation with another man, from a Commedia dell'Arte performance (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - text 'vero modo per l'anatomia' (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - 'De numeris' text (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - continuation of 'De numeris' text (recto) (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - continuation of 'De numeris' text (recto) (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - continuation of 'De numeris' text (recto) (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - 'Quinta essentia' text (recto) (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - continuation of 'quinta essentia' text with sketches of a foot and hand (recto) (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - 'Quatuor elementa' text (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - end of 'quatuor elementa' text (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - 'De imitatione statuarum' text (recto) (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - 'Saturnus' text (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - statue of Jupiter (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - Flemish text (recto) (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - Rape of Deianira by the Centaur Nessus, sketch of two men grappling watched by a crowd (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - three sketches of Hercules bearing the burden of Atlas and one of Hercules wrestling Antaeus (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - text beginning 'Lex erat Lacedemonus..." (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - Atlas, side view of Farnese Hercules, and Hercules reclining on lion skin (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - cubic studies of Farnese Hercules and accompanying text (copied from D.1978.PG.427) (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - studies of arms (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - a man's torso with flexed right arm (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Johnson Manuscript page - Hercules wrestling Antaeus, profile of Hercules's head wearing the Nemean lionskin, Hercules stealing the cattle (mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775