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    VALENTINE GREEN (1739-1815)

    St John the Baptist in the Wilderness

    published 1 November 1792

    Mezzotint | 66.6 x 41.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851544

    A print after a painting wrongly attributed on plate to Raphael then housed in the Electoral Gallery, Dusseldorf. Lettered with production details, title, dedication and dedicatee's monogram. In Pigage's 'La Galerie électorale de Dusseldorff' (1778) the painting reproduced in this print is cat. no.165.

    • Creator(s)

      Valentine Green (1739-1815) (mezzotinter)

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

      Green, V. & R. : Newman Street, Oxford Street (publisher)

      Karl Theodore, Elector Palatine of the Rhine and Elector of Bavaria (1724-99) (dedicatee)

      Valentine Green (1739-1815) (dedicator)

      Rupert Green (1768-1804) (dedicator)

    • 66.6 x 41.8 cm (sheet of paper)

      60.1 x 40.4 cm (image)

      65.5 x 40.4 cm (platemark)

    • ST. JOHN IN THE WILDERNESS. SAINT JEAN BAPTISTE DANS LE DÉSERT.

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

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