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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    The Virgin and Child reading in a landscape

    after 1853

    Albumen print | RCIN 850638

    A photograph of a painting showing the Virgin and the Christ Child seated on her lap, reading a book in a hilly ladscape; the composition recalls the motif of the 'Solly Madonna' by Raphael (c.1501-02). See RCIN 850635 for a photograph of the Solly Madonna. Not listed in Ruland (1876).
    • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)

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