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Heads of a bearded man and of a child [from 'The School of Athens'] dated 1785
Etching | 52.1 x 38.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852536.e
![Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens'
Item: Heads of a bearded man and of a child [from 'The School of Athens']](https://col.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/3/b/759515-1527264122.jpg?itok=8wpKN0g6 "Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens'
Item: Heads of a bearded man and of a child [from 'The School of Athens']")
Domenico Cunego (1726-1803)
Master: A set of thirty-three prints reproducing heads from 'The School of Athens' Item: Heads of a bearded man and of a child [from 'The School of Athens'] dated 1785
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A print reproducing the heads of the bearded man with covered head and of the child on the extreme left of Raphael's School of Athens, painted in c.1509-10 in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican. Lettered along the lower margin. Numbered at top left: 14. With watermark: 'Pietro Miliani Fabriano' (see Robison, Piranesi. Early Architectural Fantasies, 1986, no.76, no.232), and countermark: double-encircled fleur de lys (see Robison 43). The bearded figure is identified on the print as the Greek philosopher Epicharmus of Cos.
Provenance
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Medium and techniques
Etching
Measurements
52.1 x 38.9 cm (sheet of paper)
Markings
annotation: Pf 26. F. 33 [back, lower left corner, in pencil]
watermark: [PIE]TRO MILIANI / [F]ABRIANO [see Robison, 'Piranesi. Early Architectural Fantasies', 1986, no.76, p.232]
watermark: Double-encircled fleur de lys [see Robison, 'Piranesi. Early Architectural Fantasies', 1986, no.43, p.223]
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Alternative title(s)
EPICARMUS COUS
