Sculpture
Sculpture, silverware, medals and other objects
A design for a salver
c.1853-1876Albumen print | 30.5 x 24.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854250
This drawing is on the verso of the "Massacre of the Innocents", a red chalk study by Raphael for an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi (see RCIN 850421 for a photograph of the recto). The drawing on the verso, a sketch of battling creatures, was likely intended as a design for metalwork. There is a related drawing in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no. WA1846.211, see 854248 for a photograph of it) which is now attributed to a member of Raphael's workshop. Evidence shows that Raphael was providing designs for metalwork for his patron Agostino Chigi in 1510; this design may perhaps be connected with a Chigi commission.
According to Ruland (1876) and Passavant (see Bibliographic References) Agostino Chigi commissioned designs from Raphael for two salvers to be executed in bronze by Cesarino da Urbino.
Creator(s)
After Raphael (1483-1520) (draughtsman)
Associated with Cesarino Rossetti (goldsmith)
30.5 x 24.5 cm (sheet of paper)
- Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Home economics
- Tableware
- Salvers (table equipment)
- Tableware
- Engineering & Technology
- Military engineering
- Arms (weapons)
- Tridents
- Arms (weapons)
- Military engineering
- Home economics
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Religions of antiquity
- Classical mythology
- Neptune (mythology)
- Cupid
- Classical mythology
- Religions of antiquity
- Religions and faiths
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Biological sciences
- Zoology
- Animals
- Mythical creatures
- Sea centaurs (Mythical creatures)
- Mythical creatures
- Animals
- Zoology
- Biological sciences
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Science, Medicine and Technology
Bibliographic reference(s)
Clayton 1999 : Clayton, M. Raphael and his Circle. Drawings from Windsor Castle, London pp.80-85, no. 20 verso
P&W : Popham, A.E. & Wilde, J., 1949. The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, London p. 310-311, no. 0793
Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p. 205, no. 289v
Other number(s)
Ruland p. 308 A.III.4
