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

A draped man leaning on a parapet c. 1857

Albumen print? | RCIN 2864432

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A photograph of a drawing now in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 990241). The drawing is a copy from the figure of the philosopher watching the young man writing, leaning on a pilaster at the top right of the stairs in Raphael's 'School of Athens', painted in c.1509-10 in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican.

A copy of this photograph (RCIN 852582) can be found in the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection, portfolio 26 (970585)
  • Creator(s)

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

    Attributed to Charles Thurston Thompson (1816-68) (photographer)

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

  • Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
    Subject(s)
    • Philosophy & Psychology
      • Philosophers
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    P&W : Popham, A.E. & Wilde, J., 1949. The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, London p.319, no.820