Raphael's career as an architect saw him work on St Peter's Basilica, Vatican
A scroll of acanthus
c.1853-1876Albumen print | 30.3 x 21.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854214
A photograph of a pen and ink drawing depicting a scroll of acanthus now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no. WA1846.303 verso), where it is catalogued as by Giovanni da Udine. Annotated on the verso.
This drawing was previously in the collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence and it was then attributed to Raphael, but both Passavant and Ruland (1876) recognised it as by Giovanni da Udine. Passavant suggested the Vatican Logge as the source for these studies (both recto and verso, see RCIN 854213 for a photograph of the recto), although neither of the motifs depicted on this sheet actually occur in the Logge (see Bibliographic References).
Creator(s)
After Giovanni da Udine (c. 1487-1564) (draughtsman)
After a work previously attributed to Raphael (1483-1520) (draughtsman)
annotation: right top [verso, top centre, In ink]
30.3 x 21.4 cm (sheet of paper)
- Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-1876)
Subject(s)
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Decorative motifs
- Grotesques
- Decorative motifs
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Biological sciences
- Zoology
- Animals
- Mythical creatures
- Hippocamps (Mythical creatures)
- Mythical creatures
- Animals
- Zoology
- Biological sciences
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
Other number(s)
Ruland p.302 D.XV.1
