AFTER GIULIO ROMANO (ROME C. 1499-MANTUA 1546)

The Birth of the Virgin

c.1600-1750

Etching, printed in red ink | 45.4 x 30.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851423

An arch-topped etching after a drawing now in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 991358) which bears an attribution in 'deceptive hand' to Garofalo and is regarded as a copy from a drawing by Giulio Romano; in reverse. With an annotation in ink ascribing the composition to Raphael at lower left. A photograph of the drawing at RCIN 851424.

Creator(s)

After Giulio Romano (Rome c. 1499-Mantua 1546) (artist)

After a work previously attributed to Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

After a work previously attributed to Benvenuto di Pietro Tisi, called Garofalo (1476-Ferrara 1559) (artist)

Subject(s)

Saint Anne
annotation: Raphael Urbinas [front, lower left, in brown ink]
45.4 x 30.2 cm (sheet of paper)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
  Religions and faiths
  Christianity
  Life of the Virgin Mary
  Birth of the Virgin
  God (Christianity)
  Angels, demons, devils, saints
  Angels
- Science, Medicine and Technology
  Home economics
  Furniture & accessories
  Beds
  Cradles
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Bibliographic reference(s)

P&W : Popham, A.E. & Wilde, J., 1949. The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, London no. 0358

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Ruland p.108 C.VII.1

The Birth of the Virgin

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