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      AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

      Figure studies

      c.1853-76

      Albumen print | 27.9 x 17.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851460

      A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1507) now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no. WA1846.177v). The figure studies are preparatory for the 'Saint Catherine of Alexandria', a painting by Raphael (c.1507) currently in the National Gallery, London (inv. no.NG 168). Photographs of the painting at RCINs 851456, 851457. This print was published in ‘Lawrence Gallery. A series of facsimiles of original drawings by Raffaelle da Urbino’, London 1841, no.7. A photograph of the recto of the drawing at RCIN 851459.

      • Creator(s)

        After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

        S. & A. Woodburn : London (publisher)

      • 27.9 x 17.1 cm (sheet of paper)

      • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

      • Bibliographic reference(s)

        p.172, no.159r (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)

        p.601, no.216 (Knab/Mitsch/Oberhuber 1983 : Raffaello. I disegni 1983 : I disegni. (Catalogo dei Disegni a cura di Oberhuber, Ferino Pagden, Huber), Florence 1983)

        pp.228-9, no.76 (Chapman/Plazzotta/Henry 2004 : Chapman, H, Plazzotta, C, Henry, T. Raphael. From Urbino to Rome. London, 2004)

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