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Saints

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

    The Martyrdom of St Sebastian

    published 1829

    Etching | 14.7 x 10.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851565

    An outline-etching after a painting erroneously attributed on plate to Raphael which, according to Ruland (1876), was then in the Migneron Collection, Paris. Signed with initials within image at lower left: AR (?). Published in J. Duchesne, 'Musée de Peinture et de sculpture, ou Recueil des principaux tableaux, statues et bas reliefs des collections publiques et particulières de l'Europe', 17 vols, vol. VI (1829), no.409.

    • Creator(s)

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

      AR (active c.1829) (etcher)

    • 14.7 x 10.1 cm (sheet of paper)

      12.9 x 8.6 cm (image)

    • ST. SÉBASTIEN.

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

    • Subject(s)
      • Science, Medicine and Technology
        • Engineering & Technology
          • Military engineering
            • Arms (weapons)
              • Arrows
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