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After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)

The Parnassus c.1853-76

Albumen print | 30.0 x 46.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852475

After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)

The Parnassus c.1853-76

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Description

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.

Provenance

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

After a work copying
Search the collection Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)
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Physical properties

Medium and techniques

Albumen print

albumen print

Measurements

30.0 x 46.3 cm (sheet of paper)
Groupings
Category
Photographs
Object type(s)
visual works
photographs
Subject(s)
Places
Europe
Mount Parnassus [Greece]
Language, Linguistics and Literature
Literature
Poetry
People
Poets
Religion & Theology
Religions and faiths
Religions of antiquity
Classical mythology
Muses
Geography
Physiography
Mountains
References

Other number(s)

Ruland : Ruland, C., 1876. The Works of Raphael Santi da Urbino as represented in the Raphael Collection in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, formed by the Prince Consort, 1853-1861 and completed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Weimar – Ruland p.186 C.I.60

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