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Studies

Studies

AFTER? RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

Various anatomical studies

c.1853-1876

Albumen print | 24.9 x 17.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854387

A photograph of a drawing that Ruland (1876) catalogued as formerly in the collection of Chambers Hall. This drawing depicts the back of a nude man and other figures. This drawing features sketches of a panel on the verso (see RCIN 854388 for a photograph of it).
Annotated on the verso.

Chambers Hall was a famous prints and drawings collector, who presented a group of important works to the British Museum and a much larger group of prints and drawings to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. A posthumous sale was held at Christie's on 14 March 1856. 
  • Creator(s)

    After? Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

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

  • 24.9 x 17.1 cm (sheet of paper)

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

  • Subject(s)
    • People
      • Men
    • Science, Medicine and Technology
      • Medical sciences
        • Anatomy
          • Human body
          • Torsos
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
  • Other number(s)

    Ruland p.326 B.XXXIX.1