A portrait supposed to depict Raphael

An etching that Ruland (1876) catalogued as reproducing in reverse an etching by Wenceslaus Hollar which was supposed to depict a self-portrait of Raphael. See RCIN 850140 for the etching by Hollar. Lettered with the title which identifies the sitter as Raphael. This print was published in Joachim von Sandrart's "Teutsche Academie der Bau-Bildhauer- und Maler-Kunst" (vol. I, pl. O). See RCIN 808964.a for the 'Teutsche Academie'. Annotated on the verso.

This portrait of Raphael was etched by Philip Kilian on a plate which includes other five portraits of artists (Correggio, Giovan Francesco Penni, Andrea Del Sarto, Polidoro da Caravaggio and Rosso Fiorentino), all represented in a roundel with their names lettered. This plate is signed by Sandrart as intermediate draughstman and by the printmaker; it is lettered: "O".

Joachim von Sandrart (1606–1688), from the mid 1660s, devoted himself increasingly to his work as an art theorist and teacher and in 1668 he began to write the "Teutsche Academie" with the help of the poet and publicist Sigmund von Birken; this work was published in three volumes between 1675 and 1680 in Nuremberg. This was a monumental work richly illustrated with hundreds of prints depicting antiquities, architecture and classical mythology, mostly after designs by the author, executed by various printmakers (Jacob von Sandrart, Karl Gustav Amling, Richard Collin, Georg Christoph Eimmart the Younger, Johann Franck, Bartholomeus II Kilian, Philipp Kilian, Melchior Küsel, Johann Jacob von Sandrart, Johann Jacob Thourneysen, Johann Georg Waldreich, Georg Andreas Wolfgang and some anonymous plates).