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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

      A battle scene with prisoners being pinioned

      c.1853-76

      Albumen print | RCIN 852852

      A photograph of the recto of a drawing by Raphael (c.1506-1507) now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no. WA1846.179 r). The drawing has been formerly connected with the fresco of 'The Victory at Ostia' painted in the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican in c.1514-15. See also RCINs 852251, 852853 and 854368.
      • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

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