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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

    A flying angel

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | RCIN 852756

    A photograph of a drawing now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.31), formerly attributed to Raphael and was connected with the angel on the right of the 'The Sacrifice of Abraham', one of the four ceiling paintings of the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican.
    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

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