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Studies

Studies

AFTER A WORK PREVIOUSLY ATTRIBUTED TO RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

A sea-goddess

c.1853-1876

Albumen print | 21.3 x 10.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854593

A photograph of a drawing that Ruland (1876) catalogued as being then in the collection of the later Major Kühlen, Rome. This drawing depicts a semi-nude female figure copied from a statue. Annotated on the verso.

Ruland (1876) believed this drawing to depict the same statue (after it had been restored) as the one represented in a drawing by the school of Raphael now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (see RCIN 854592 for a photograph of it).
  • Creator(s)

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

  • annotation: 1 Top [verso, centre, in ink]

  • 21.3 x 10.4 cm (sheet of paper)

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

  • Subject(s)
    • Geography
      • Physiography
        • Oceans
          • Sea
    • People
      • Goddesses
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Religions of antiquity
          • Classical mythology
            • Venus (mythology)
            • Psyche
    • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
      • Plastic arts
        • Sculpture
          • Statues
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
  • Other number(s)

    Ruland p. 348 B.VII.2