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AFTER A WORK PREVIOUSLY ATTRIBUTED TO RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

Portrait of a Cardinal (?)

c.1620-1720

Etching | 13.0 x 9.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852167

An etching after a bust-portrait formerly reputed to be by Raphael. Lettered in the lower left corner: R.F.V.R. Annotated in (faded) ink at lower centre: R. d'Urbino inv.

  • Creator(s)

    After a work previously attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

  • R. d'Urbino inv

  • 13.0 x 9.3 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

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