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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

The Virgin and Child Enthroned with St Nicholas of Tolentino

published 1841

Lithograph | 33.8 x 25.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851187

A lithographic facsimile of a drawing by Raphael (c.1502) currently housed in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main (inv. no.376). The drawing may be a drawing for a never executed altarpiece. Published in ‘Lawrence Gallery. A series of facsimiles of original drawings by Raffaelle da Urbino’, London 1841, no.1. A photograph of the drawing can be found at RCIN 851186.
  • Creator(s)

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

    S. & A. Woodburn : London (publisher)

  • 33.8 x 25.4 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
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    p.142, no.37 (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)

    p.584, no.26 (Knab/Mitsch/Oberhuber 1983 : Raffaello. I disegni 1983 : I disegni. (Catalogo dei Disegni a cura di Oberhuber, Ferino Pagden, Huber), Florence 1983)

    p.184, no.A 41 (Höper 2001 : Höper, C. Raffael und die Folgen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001)