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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

      AFTER A WORK COPYING RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

      Prisoners hauled before Pope Leo IV at the Battle of Ostia

      c.1853-76

      Carbon print? | 26.0 x 31.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852851

      A photograph of a drawing now in the Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth House (inv. no.68). The drawing has been described as an early copy after a (now lost) design by Raphael related to the fresco of The Victory at Ostia, painted in the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican in c.1514-15.

      • Creator(s)

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

        Subject(s)

        Pope Leo IV (r.847-855)

      • 26.0 x 31.6 cm (sheet of paper)

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

      • Subject(s)
        • Social sciences
          • Military affairs
            • Wars, Campaigns & Battles
              • War operations
                • Battles
                  • Sea battles
        Object type(s)
          • visual works
            • photographs
      • Other number(s)

        Ruland p.210 B.IV.8

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