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    A scene from a bas-relief

    c.1853-1876

    Albumen print | 8.2 x 21.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854608

    A photograph of a bas-relief which Ruland (1876) catalogued as similar to one from Palazzo Mattei di Giove, Rome. See RCIN 854607 for a photograph of a drawing that depicts this bas-relief. Annotated on the verso.

    • annotation: (S) / To a (?) / 546 XVII [verso, centre, in ink]

    • 8.2 x 21.6 cm (sheet of paper)

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

    • Subject(s)
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Religions of antiquity
            • Classical mythology
              • Venus (mythology)
              • Mars (myth)
              • Cupid
              • Nymphs
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
    • Other number(s)

      Ruland p. 349 B.XVII.2

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