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Christ and other religious subjects

Images of Christ and Other Religious Subjects / Other religious compositions

AFTER UGO DA CARPI (C. 1480-1532)

A Sybil (?) Reading from a Book with a Child Holding a Torch

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 28.5 x 19.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850625

A photograph of an ink and wash drawing, most probably a copy after the anonymous reversed version of the chiaroscuro woodcut by Ugo da Carpi (see RCIN 850629 for the woodcut, which is after a design reputed to be by Raphael). The photographed drawing has been formerly attributed to Guido Reni or Simone da Pesaro, and is now in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle (RCIN 903479).
  • Creator(s)

    After Ugo da Carpi (c. 1480-1532) (wood cutter)

    After? Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

  • 28.5 x 19.6 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Subject(s)
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Religions of antiquity
          • Classical mythology
            • Sibyls (myth)
              • Sibyls-Reading
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    p.162, under no.A5 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)
    p.126 (Ugo da Carpi 2009 : Ugo da Carpi, l'opera incisa : xilografie e chiaroscuri da Tiziano, Raffaello e Parmigianino / a cura di Manuela Rossi, 2009)
    no. 0854 (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)