Tapestries
Tapestries
MANSFELD & CO. : VIENNA
The miraculous draught of fishes
published c.1829-1834Lithograph | 23.0 x 32.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853028
A lithographic facsimile of a drawing attributed to Francesco Penni (c.1514) now in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.192r). Trimmed to image on all sides. Published in N. Förster, Lithographirte Copien von Original Handzeichnungen berühmter alter Meister der Italienischen schule aus der Sammlung seiner Kaiserlichen Hoheit des durchlauchtigsten Erzherzogs Carl von Oesterreich, 2 vols., Vienna (Mansfeld et Comp.), 1829-34, I.
Variously attributed to Raphael, Giulio Romano and Francesco Penni, the Albertina drawing is generally thought to be a first design for the composition of 'The Miraculous Draught of Fishes', one from a set of ten tapestry cartoons commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X in c.1515. The tapestries, subsequently woven in the Brussels workshop of Pieter van Aelst, were intended to be hung in the Sistine Chapel. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.
Between 1829 and 1834 the lithographic printers Mansfeld and Company, who were based in Vienna, published two volumes of lithographic copies after drawings then in the collection of Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen; volume one contained drawings attributed to the Italian school, and volume two the German and Flemish school.
Variously attributed to Raphael, Giulio Romano and Francesco Penni, the Albertina drawing is generally thought to be a first design for the composition of 'The Miraculous Draught of Fishes', one from a set of ten tapestry cartoons commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X in c.1515. The tapestries, subsequently woven in the Brussels workshop of Pieter van Aelst, were intended to be hung in the Sistine Chapel. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.
Between 1829 and 1834 the lithographic printers Mansfeld and Company, who were based in Vienna, published two volumes of lithographic copies after drawings then in the collection of Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen; volume one contained drawings attributed to the Italian school, and volume two the German and Flemish school.
Creator(s)
Mansfeld & Co. : Vienna (lithographer)
After a work attributed to Giovanni Francesco Penni (1496-c. 1536) (artist)
Giacomo Pilizotti (b. 1807) (copyist)
After a work previously attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
23.0 x 32.8 cm (sheet of paper)
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Life of Christ
- Public Life of Christ
- Christ Calling the Apostles
- Christ-Miraculous Draught of Fishes
- Christ Calling the Apostles
- Public Life of Christ
- Life of Christ
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Zoology
- Animals
- Fish
- Animals
- Zoology
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Tapestries
- Tapestry designs
- Tapestry cartoons of Raphael (Acts of the Apostles)
- Tapestry designs
- Tapestries
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.223, no.356r (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)
pp.99-103, under no.25, fig.45 (Clayton 1999 : Clayton, M. Raphael and his Circle. Drawings from Windsor Castle, London)
pp.66-73, no.1 (Raphael. Cartoons and Tapestries 2010 : Raphael. Cartoons and Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel. Edited by M. Evans and C. Browne with A. Nesselrath, V&A Publishing 2010)
