This website presents our knowledge and research on this important aspect of the Royal Collection. As of April 2026 it will not be regularly updated and new research on this topic will sit within the main website.

Studies

Studies

ATTRIBUTED TO ROBERT JEFFERSON BINGHAM (1825-70)

The head of the Virgin

c.1859

Albumen print | 21.0 x 15.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854444

A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c. 1503-1504) that Ruland (1876) catalogued as being then in the collection of the late Baron de Triqueti, Paris. Annotated on the verso.

This drawing has been identified (see Bibliographic References) as a study for the Virgin in the so-called 'Sposalizio', a painting by Raphael (1504) now in the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan (inv. no.472). See RCIN 851388 for a photograph of the painting.
  • Creator(s)

    Attributed to Robert Jefferson Bingham (1825-70) (photographer)

    After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

    Subject(s)

    Blessed Virgin Mary
  • annotation: middle top [verso, bottom centre, in ink]

  • 21.0 x 15.1 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
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p. 148, no. 64

    Other number(s)

    Ruland p.332 A.XXIV.1