Four male heads [from 'The Conversion of the Proconsul Sergius Paulus']

A print reproducing four heads from Raphael's tapestry cartoon of 'The Conversion of the Proconsul' currently on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from the Royal Collection (RCIN 912948). The inscription lettered at lower centre suggests that the print may be the work of William Hogarth.

The cartoon of 'The Conversion of the Proconsul' (Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 13, 6-12) was executed by Raphael and his workshop for one of the ten tapestries illustrating episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul commissioned by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel. The cartoon reproduced in this print is one of the seven that have survived; they are all part of the Royal Collection, and since 1865 are on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The ten original tapestries were woven in the workshop of Pieter van Aelst and are currently housed in the Vatican Museums.