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Mythology & Putti

Mythology & Putti

Hercules and the Nemean Lion

c.1860-76

Carbon print | RCIN 851691

A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1507-08) now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no. WA1846.181). A facsimile of the drawing published in ‘Lawrence Gallery. A series of facsimiles of original drawings by Raffaelle da Urbino’ (1841) can be found at RCIN 851692.
  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)