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Tapestries

Tapestries

Head of a man wearing a helmet

c.1860-76

Carbon print | RCIN 853103

A photograph of a drawing catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being then in the collection of the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar. The drawing corresponds with the head of the man standing at the far right in Raphael's tapestry cartoon of 'The Healing of the Lame Man' (c.1515-16) now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, on loan from the Royal Collection (see RCIN 912946).

A photograph of the tapestry cartoon can be found at RCIN 853101.
  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)