A group of figures from the antique

A photograph of a drawing depicting various figures from the antique now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no. WA1846.256  recto). See RCIN 854572 for a photograph of the verso. Annotated on the verso.

Parker (see Bibliographic References), transcribing the inscription written on the mount of the drawing by Jonathan Richardson the Younger which refers to a double sided drawing now in Louvre (see RCINs 854569 and 854570 for photographs of recto and verso), affirms that "the present version, much superior to the other, is certainly original of Raphael's time". Suggesting that the motifs here depicted were borrowed from imperial Roman coins (while Ruland (1876) believed the source to be a bas-relief), he also noted that the seated figure at the far right does not appear in the drawing now in the Louvre.