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

    St John the Baptist in the Wilderness

    published 1778

    Etching | 5.1 x 3.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851545

    A small etching after a painting wrongly attributed on plate to Raphael then housed in the Electoral Gallery, Dusseldorf. This print is a fragment of a plate published in ‘Estampes du catalogue raisonné et figuré des Tableaux de la Galerie électorale de Dusseldorff', Basel und Mannheim, 1778, no.165.

    • Creator(s)

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

    • 5.1 x 3.6 cm (sheet of paper)

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

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