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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

      Two wrestling figures

      c.1853-76

      Albumen print | RCIN 852850

      A photograph of a drawing attributed to Giacomo Cavedone now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.306). The drawing is a copy from a group of figures in the foreground of the fresco of 'The Victory at Ostia', painted in the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican.
      • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

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