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Mythology & Putti

Mythology & Putti

    Seven putti playing

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | RCIN 851900

    A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1507) now in the Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford (inv. no.0112). A reversed facsimile etching of the drawing dated 1734 was published in Pond and Knapton's 'Prints in Imitation of Drawings', a series of seventy plates after Old Master Drawings published in 1735. See RCIN 851901.
    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

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