Allegory
Allegory
FREDERICK CHRISTIAN LEWIS (1779-1856)
Hope
published 1 June 1809Etching, printed in brown, with aquatint | 40.6 x 28.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851943
A facsimile of a drawing currently housed in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 990415). Lettered with production details and attribution of the drawing to Raphael. Included in 'Original Designs of the Most Celebrated Masters of the Bolognese, Roman Florentine and Venetian Schools ... in His Majesty's collection', London 1812, plate LII. A photograph of the drawing at RCIN 851942.
Passavant thought that the photographed drawing may be a copy of a study formerly in the collection of Professor Jansen at Copenhagen which he attributed to G.F. Penni and described as preparatory for a painting then in the possession of H. Hope, a photograph of which can be found at RCIN 851940.
Passavant thought that the photographed drawing may be a copy of a study formerly in the collection of Professor Jansen at Copenhagen which he attributed to G.F. Penni and described as preparatory for a painting then in the possession of H. Hope, a photograph of which can be found at RCIN 851940.
Creator(s)
Frederick Christian Lewis (1779-1856) (etcher)
After a work copying the circle of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
John Chamberlaine (1745-1812) (publisher)
40.6 x 28.3 cm (sheet of paper)
38.6 x 26.0 cm (platemark)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Philosophy & Psychology
- Philosophy
- Allegory
- Philosophy
- Philosophy & Psychology
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.318, under no.815 (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)
