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    Portrait of a Lady ['La Velata']

    c.1750-1850

    Engraving with etching | RCIN 852100

    A print after the so-called 'La Velata', a painting by Raphael (c.1512-18) now in the Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence (inv. Pal. no.245). State before all letters. Not in Ruland (1876). A photograph of the painting at RCIN 852101.
    • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)

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