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      AFTER? RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

      A boy and a bird

      c.1860-1876

      Carbon print | 25.5 x 19.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854408

      A photograph of a red chalk drawing catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being then in the collection of the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar. This drawing depicts a boy playing with a bird. Annotated on the verso.

      • Creator(s)

        After? Raphael (1483-1520) (draughtsman)

      • annotation: Weimar [verso, bottom centre, in ink]

      • 25.5 x 19.5 cm (sheet of paper)

      • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)

      • Subject(s)
        • People
          • Boys
        • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
          • Biological sciences
            • Zoology
              • Animals
                • Birds
        Object type(s)
          • visual works
            • photographs
      • Other number(s)

        Ruland p.328 B.LIX.1

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