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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    GEORGE SCHARF (1820-95)

    Details of gilt hemlines

    c.1840-1885

    Pencil on tracing paper | RCIN 850687

    Three pencil tracings from Raphael’s Ansidei Madonna (1505) now in the National Gallery, London (inv. no.NG 1171). The tracings reproduce accurate details of the hemlines of the mantles of the Virgin and St John the Baptist, with various inscriptions.

    • Creator(s)

      George Scharf (1820-95) (draughtsman)

      After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

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

    • Subject(s)
      • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
        • Decorative motifs
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • tracings
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      Capellen 2001 : Capellen, JM, 2001. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 1, The Beginning in Umbria and Florence ca.1500-1508 pp. 165-170, no. 16

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.57 A.VII.2

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