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    Dance of Cupids, and Men Watering the Place of Bulls

    c.1500-1550

    Engraving | RCIN 851884

    An anonymous engraving, copy of part of 'The Dance Cupids' by Marcantonio Raimondi (RCIN 851880), on the same plate with a reduced and retouched state of 'Watering the Place of Bulls' (with address of Salamanca), a plate described by Bartsch as after a drawing by Raphael (B. XV, p.52, no.8). This print is not described in Bartsch.

    For a comment on the 'Dance of Cupids' originally engraved by Marcantonio Raimondi, see RCIN 851880.
    • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

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