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    Pope Leo X

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | RCIN 852095

    A photograph of a drawing now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. WA1846.281). The drawing is a copy after the seated figure of Pope Leo X in Raphael's 'Portrait of Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi' (1517-18) currently housed in the Uffizi, Florence (inv.1912, no.40).
    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

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