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Mythology & Putti

Mythology & Putti

Seven children playing with an animal, and a womand holding a child at right, with studies of leaves above

c.1853-76

Albumen print | RCIN 851895

A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1507) now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no. WA1846.169). A facsimile of the drawing published in Ottley's 'Italian School of Design' (1823) at RCIN 851896.

This drawing is on the verso of a depiction of a young woman walking (a photograph of the recto can be found at RCIN 854295).
  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)