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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

    Compositional studies for a Virgin with the Child

    published 1841

    Lithograph | 36.4 x 36.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851196

    A lithograph featuring facsimiles of four drawings by Raphael dating c.1502-03, all currently housed in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. nos.WA1846.152a r-v; WA1846.152b r-v). The drawings connect with the so-called 'Norton Simon Madonna', a painting by Raphael currently housed in the Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena (inv. no.M.1972.2.P). Published in ‘Lawrence Gallery. A series of facsimiles of original drawings by Raffaelle da Urbino’, London 1841, no.3.

    • Creator(s)

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

      S. & A. Woodburn : London (publisher)

    • 36.4 x 36.8 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

    • Subject(s)
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Christianity
            • Devotional Images of Christ
              • Virgin & Child
                • Virgin & Child-Reading a book
            • Life of Christ
              • Infancy of Christ
                • Christ Child
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