This website presents our knowledge and research on this important aspect of the Royal Collection. As of April 2026 it will not be regularly updated and new research on this topic will sit within the main website.

Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

The Mass at Bolsena

c.1870-80

Engraving | RCIN 852704

A print reproducing the fresco of 'The Miracle of the Mass at Bolsena', painted by Raphael in c.1512 in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican. Lettered with artists' and printer's names below image. With coat of arms at lower centre, and head of a bearded man at lower right (detail from the fresco). State without dedication and publishing line. Annotated in pencil on both sides. Described as from Pietro de Brognoli's series of prints after Raphael's Stanze frescoes and Sistine Chapel tapestries dated 1874 (Höper 2001). Not in Ruland (1876).
  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)