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Tapestries

Tapestries

AFTER A WORK COPYING RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

Christ's charge to Peter

c.1853-76

Albumen print? | 15.9 x 28.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853056

A photograph of a drawing now in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 990317). The drawing is a copy from Raphael's tapestry cartoon of 'Christ's Charge to Peter' (see RCIN 912945). Ruland (1876) suggested that the drawing is the work of Biagio Pupini.
  • Creator(s)

    After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    After a work previously attributed to Biagio Pupini (active 1511-after 1575) (artist)

  • 15.9 x 28.5 cm (sheet of paper)

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

  • Subject(s)
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Christianity
          • Life of Christ
            • Public Life of Christ
              • Christ's Charge to Peter (Donation of the Keys)
    • Science, Medicine and Technology
      • Industries, Crafts and Trades
        • Ironmongery
          • Keys
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    p.320, no.827 (P&W : Popham, A.E. & Wilde, J., 1949. The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, London)