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Portraits

Portraits

AFTER RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

Study of a half-length seated female figure

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 39.6 x 25.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852175

A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1504) currently in the British Museum, London (inv. no.1895,0915.612). Ruland (1876) catalogued the drawing as being then in the collection of J. Malcolm, Esq.
  • Creator(s)

    After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

  • 39.6 x 25.0 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    Catalogue of the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. v. P. Pouncey and J.A.Gere, Raphael and His Circle (1962); p.8, no.9

    Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p.149, no.67

    Other number(s)

    Ruland p.160 C.VIII.1