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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

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

A running child

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 18.4 x 10.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852839

A photograph of a drawing now in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem (inv. no.A 77). The drawing is derived from the running child painted in the foreground of Raphael's fresco of 'The Fire in the Borgo', executed in the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican in c.1514.
  • Creator(s)

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

  • 18.4 x 10.1 cm (sheet of paper)

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

  • Subject(s)
    • Children
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    p.282, no.256 (van Tuyll van Serooskerken 2000 : van Tuyll van Serooskerken, C., 2000. The Italian drawings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Teyler Museum.)