Tapestries
Tapestries
ANTONIO CAPELLAN (C. 1740-1793)
Woman standing in a landscape breastfeeding two children
dated 1798Engraving | 46.3 x 29.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853134
A print reproducing a composition based on the allegorical personification of Charity from the vertical border at the right of the tapestry of 'The Death of Ananias', one of the ten Sistine Chapel tapestries designed by Raphael under commission of Pope Leo X. Numbered at upper right: 5. Dated. Lettered with two lines in Latin below image describing the subject as Latona nursing Apollo and Diana.
Creator(s)
Antonio Capellan (c. 1740-1793) (engraver)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)
Petrus Angeletti (active 1758-1786) (designer)
46.3 x 29.9 cm (sheet of paper)
43.2 x 27.2 cm (platemark)
PELLITVR E CELO LATONA, NEC EXVL AB ILLO ES / FERT CELVM, NATOS QVO FERET ILLA DVOS
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Religions of antiquity
- Classical mythology
- Apollo (myth)
- Classical mythology
- Religions of antiquity
- Religions and faiths
- Religion & Theology
