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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

      The Parnassus

      c.1853-76

      Albumen print | RCIN 852475

      A photograph of a drawing currently in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.272). The drawing is a copy of a lost original design by Raphael, apparently an early study for the composition of the Parnassus fresco, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican.
      • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

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