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Tapestries

Tapestries

    Head of a man in profile to the left

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | RCIN 853064

    A photograph of a drawing catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being then in the collection of the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar. The drawing copies the head of one of the Apostles from Raphael's tapestry cartoon of 'Christ's Charge to Peter' (c.1515-16) now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, on loan from the Royal Collection (see RCIN 912945).
    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

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