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      LUDOVICO FERRETTI (ACTIVE 1837)

      Allegorical figure of Prudence [from the Sala di Costantino]

      c.1835-76

      Engraving with etching | 53.1 x 38.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852985

      A print reproducing the allegorical figure of Prudence, painted to the left of Pope Damasus I in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican by Raphael's workshop between 1520 and 1524. The setting has been modified. Lettered with title and production details. Stamped with the blind stamp of the Calcografia di Roma (Lugt 426e).

      • Creator(s)

        Ludovico Ferretti (active 1837) (printmaker)

        After a work by the workshop of Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

        Antonio Baruffaldi (1793-1819) (designer)

        Rome : Calcografia Camerale (publisher)

      • 53.1 x 38.1 cm (sheet of paper)

        49.8 x 35.6 cm (platemark)

      • LA PRUDENZA

      • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

      • Subject(s)
        • Philosophy & Psychology
          • Philosophy
            • Allegory
        • Places
          • Europe
            • Italy
              • Lazio [Italy]
                • Rome [Lazio]
                  • Vatican City [Rome]
                    • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                      • Sala di Costantino [Vatican Palace]
        Object type(s)
          • visual works
            • photographs
      • Bibliographic reference(s)

        Raphael Invenit 1985 : G. Bernini Pezzini et al., Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 1985 p.117, no.IX.3 (entry by Grazia Bernini Pezzini)

        Other number(s)

        Ruland p.239 C.V.3

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