The stoning of St Stephen; St Paul in prison

A print after the tapestry illustrating 'The Stoning of St Stephen' and 'St Paul in Prison', from a set of ten tapestries commissioned by Pope Leo X for the Sistine Chapel. Lettered with artists' and printer's names below image. With coat of arms at lower centre, and head of a young man at lower right (detail from the tapestry). State without dedication. With pencil annotations on the verso. Not in Ruland (1876). Described as from Pietro de Brognoli's series of prints after Raphael's Stanze frescoes and Sistine Chapel tapestries dated 1874 (Höper 2001).

The tapestry designs were executed by Raphael and his workshop and transported to Flanders, where the tapestries were woven in the workshop of Pieter van Aelst. Three of the original cartoons are lost, including 'The Stoning of St Stephen' and 'St Paul in Prison'. The remaining seven are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum on loan from the Royal Collection. The ten original tapestries, intended to be hung in the Sistine Chapel, are housed in the Vatican Museums.