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After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)
Head of a young man c. 1857
Albumen print? | RCIN 2864411
After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)
Head of a young man c. 1857
A photograph of a drawing now in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 912752). The drawing has been sometimes described as a copy of the head of the foremost figure running alongside the rider in the centre-right foreground of the fresco of 'The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple', painted by Raphael in 1511-12 in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican.
A copy of this photograph (RCIN 852699) can be found in the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection, portfolio 28 (970587)
A copy of this photograph (RCIN 852699) can be found in the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection, portfolio 28 (970587)
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Creator(s)
After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Attributed to Charles Thurston Thompson (1816-68) (photographer)
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Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- visual works
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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.822
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