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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

Head of a woman with her hair held in a net [from 'The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple']

published 15 March 1788

Engraving | RCIN 852683

A print reproducing the head of one of the women depicted in Raphael's fresco of 'The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple', painted in 1511-12 in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican. Lettered with production details.
  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)