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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    Virgin and Child

    c.1853-76

    Salted paper print | RCIN 850906

    A photograph of a drawing catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being then in the Thorwaldsen Museum, Copenhagen. A very similar drawing is currently in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett (inv. KdZ 21502). A photograph at RCIN 850905. Ruland (1876) associated both drawings with Raphael's so-called ‘Bridgewater Madonna’, a painting currently on loan to the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (inv. no.NGL 065.46) from the Duke of Sutherland Collection.
    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

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