Tapestries
Tapestries
The miraculous draught of fishes
c.1853-76Albumen print | RCIN 853026
A photograph of a drawing usually accepted as by Raphael (c.1514) now in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.192v). The drawing is a study for the final composition of 'The Miraculous Draught of Fishes', one from a set of ten tapestry cartoons depicting episodes from the lives of St Peter and St Paul, commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X in c.1515. The tapestries were woven in the Brussels workshop of Pieter van Aelst and were intended to be hung in the Sistine Chapel. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)