Tapestries
Tapestries
COUNT EDUARD CLAM-GALLAS (1805-91)
Woman standing in a landscape breastfeeding two children (Charity)
c.1825-1875Etching | 31.5 x 21.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853135
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. Lettered with artists' names within image.
Creator(s)
Count Eduard Clam-Gallas (1805-91) (etcher)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)
Joseph Bergler (1753-1829) (designer)
31.5 x 21.3 cm (sheet of paper)
29.8 x 21.6 cm (platemark)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
