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Vatican Frescoes

      CHARLES THURSTON THOMPSON (1816-68)

      A seated woman and child

      c.1853-76

      Albumen print | 20.7 x 21.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852706

      A photograph of a drawing by Carlo Maratti now in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 904315). The drawing is a copy of the figures of a seated woman and child from Raphael's fresco of The Mass at Bolsena, painted in c.1512 in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican.

      • Creator(s)

        Charles Thurston Thompson (1816-68) (photographer)

        After Carlo Maratti (1625-1713) (artist)

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

      • 20.7 x 21.8 cm (sheet of paper)

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

      • Subject(s)
        • Places
          • Europe
            • Italy
              • Lazio [Italy]
                • Rome [Lazio]
                  • Vatican City [Rome]
                    • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                      • Stanza d'Eliodoro [Vatican Palace]
        Object type(s)
          • visual works
            • photographs
      • Bibliographic reference(s)

        B(R) : Blunt, A.F. & Cooke, H.L., 1960. The Roman Drawings of the XVII and XVIII Centuries in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle, London no. 415

        Other number(s)

        Ruland p.201 C.8

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