Head and outstretched arms of a fleeing woman

A print reproducing a fragment of a preparatory cartoon for the three-panel tapestry of 'The Massacre of the Innocents' now in the Vatican Museums. The fragment, which Ruland (1876) catalogued as being then in the possession of Earl Spencer at Althorp House, went on sale at Sotheby's in New York, 8 June 2007, lot 214. Lettered with engraver's name and attribution of the original to Raphael. For a photograph of the cartoon fragment and further discussion about the 'Scuola Nuova' set, see RCIN 853244.