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Portraits

Portraits

Study of a half-length seated female figure

published 1841

Lithograph | RCIN 852176

A lithographic facsimile of a drawing by Raphael (c.1504) currently in the British Museum, London (inv. no.1895,0915.612). Published in ‘Lawrence Gallery. A series of facsimiles of original drawings by Raffaelle da Urbino’, London 1841, no.16, where the sitter was identified as the sister of Raphael. A photograph of the drawing can be found at RCIN 852175.
  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)