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    AFTER? RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

    A man in profile

    c.1853-1876

    Albumen print | 16.5 x 10.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854435

    A photograph of a drawing catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being then in the collection of the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar and as erroneously identified as a portrait of Pope Julius II.

    • Creator(s)

      After? Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (draughtsman)

    • 16.5 x 10.6 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

    • Subject(s)
      • Science, Medicine and Technology
        • Medical sciences
          • Anatomy
            • Heads
            • Human anatomy
              • Human Hair
                • Beards
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
    • Other number(s)

      Ruland p.331 A.XV.1

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