Tapestries
AFTER A WORK COPYING THE WORKSHOP OF RAPHAEL
The Adoration of the Magi
c.1853-76Albumen print | 23.4 x 42.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853264
A photograph of a 16th-century drawing now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.298). The drawing is a copy after the tapestry of 'The Adoration of the Magi', one from a twelve-piece set depicting scenes from the Life of Christ, traditionally known as the ‘Scuola Nuova’. The drawing differs from the tapestry in a few details.
Creator(s)
After a work copying The Workshop of Raphael (designer)
23.4 x 42.3 cm (sheet of paper)
- Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Life of Christ
- Infancy of Christ
- Adoration of the Magi
- Infancy of Christ
- Life of Christ
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp.236-41 (Tapestry in the Renaissance 2002 : Tapestry in the Renaissance. Art and Magnificence, ed. Thomas P. Campbell, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2002)
