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    AFTER? RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

    Four men around a column

    c.1853-1876

    Albumen print | 20.6 x 14.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854394

    A photograph of a pen and ink drawing that Ruland (1876) catalogued as being then in the Royal Library, Turin. This drawing depicts four men around a column. Annotated on the verso.

    • Creator(s)

      After? Raphael (1483-1520) (draughtsman)

    • annotation: left bottom [verso, bottom centre, in ink]

    • 20.6 x 14.6 cm (sheet of paper)

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

    • Subject(s)
      • People
        • Men
      • Science, Medicine and Technology
        • Construction
          • Structural parts of buildings
            • Columns
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
    • Other number(s)

      Ruland p.327 B.XLV.1

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