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    AFTER A WORK ATTRIBUTED TO BALDASSARRE PERUZZI (1481-1536)

    A headless statue

    c.1853-1876

    Albumen print | 36.5 x 24.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854563

    A photograph of a drawing depicting a headless statue now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no. WA1846.141). Annotated on the verso.

    Parker (see Bibliographic References) catalogued this drawing as by Baldassarre Peruzzi and as copied from one of the three caryatids from the Erechtheion in Athens.

    • Creator(s)

      After a work attributed to Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481-1536) (draughtsman)

      After a work previously attributed to Raphael (1483-1520) (draughtsman)

    • annotation: illegible [verso, bottom centre, in ink on the whole folio sheet]

    • 36.5 x 24.2 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-1876)

    • Subject(s)
      • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
        • Plastic arts
          • Sculpture
            • Statues
        • Architecture
          • Architectural design
            • Architectural decoration & motifs
              • Caryatids & telamons
      • Places
        • Europe
          • Greece
            • Attiki [Greece]
              • Athens [Greece]
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
    • Other number(s)

      Ruland p. 346 A.VII.1

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