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    AFTER A WORK COPYING RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

    St Paul, with St John the Evangelist's eagle [detail from 'Saint Cecilia']

    c.1860-76

    Carbon print | 30.3 x 12.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851482

    A photograph of a drawing now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice. The drawing is a copy of the draped figures of Saints Paul and , John the Evangelist (with his eagle) after Raphael's painting of Saint Cecilia, which is now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna (inv. no.577). Photographs of the painting at RCINs 851464, 851465, 851466.

    • Creator(s)

      After a work copying Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

      Subject(s)

      Saint Paul

    • 30.3 x 12.3 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)

    • Subject(s)
      • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
        • Biological sciences
          • Zoology
            • Animals
              • Birds
                • Birds of prey
                  • Eagles
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 pp.124-32, no.55

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.113 A.IX.15

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