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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | RCIN 851192

    A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1499) currently housed in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.502). The photograph shows the kneeling Virgin supporting the Christ Child, who sits on a pack saddle with the Infant Baptist leaning on it at right.
    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

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