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      FREDERICK CHRISTIAN LEWIS (1779-1856)

      Studies for a kneeling woman

      published 1 May 1818

      Lithograph | 47.7 x 33.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852692

      A facsimile of a drawing by Raphael (c.1511-12) now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.198r). Lettered with description and production details. Published in W.Y. Ottley's Italian School of Design, London 1823.

      The studies connect with the figure of the kneeling woman in the left foreground of Raphael's fresco of The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple, executed in 1511-12 in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican. For a photograph of the drawing see RCIN 852691.

      • Creator(s)

        Frederick Christian Lewis (1779-1856) (printmaker)

        After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

        Ottley, W.Y.: London (publisher)

      • 47.7 x 33.6 cm (sheet of paper)

      • Study for part of the Celebrated Fresco entitled the Heliodorus in the Vatican.

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

      • Object type(s)
          • visual works
            • prints
      • Bibliographic reference(s)

        Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p.216, no.333r

        Other number(s)

        Ruland p.200 B.31

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