Study of a male head

published 1 May 1818

Crayon-manner with etching | 36.3 x 28.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851366

A print after a drawing by Raphael formerly in the collection of J. Malcolm, Esq., and now in the British Museum, London (inv. no.1895,0915.610). Lettered with production details. Published in W.Y. Ottley's Italian School of Design, London 1823. A photograph of the original drawing at RCIN 851365.

The drawing is a study of the head of St Thomas in the Coronation of the Virgin, the main panel of the Oddi Altarpiece (or Pala Oddi) executed by Raphael in c.1502-03 and now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City (inv. no.334). Photographs of the Coronation of the Virgin at RCINs 851349, 851350, 851351.

Creator(s)

Frederick Christian Lewis (1779-1856) (etcher)

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

Ottley, W.Y.: Kensington (publisher)

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Saint Thomas
36.3 x 28.1 cm (sheet of paper)

28.5 x 21.4 cm (image)

34.8 x 26.2 cm (platemark)
RAFFAELLO SANZIO DI URBINO.
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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Bibliographic reference(s)
Catalogue of the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. v.
P. Pouncey and J.A.Gere, Raphael and His Circle (1962); pp.5-6, no.5

Knab/Mitsch/Oberhuber 1983 : Raffaello. I disegni 1983 : I disegni. (Catalogo dei Disegni a cura di Oberhuber, Ferino Pagden, Huber), Florence 1983
p.586, no.45

Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford
p.145, no.50

Other number(s)
Ruland p.104 A.I.18

Life and Legend of the Virgin Mary

Study of a male head

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