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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

A poet [from the 'Parnassus']

c.1853-76

Albumen print | RCIN 852515

A photograph of a drawing catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being then in the Uffizi, Florence. The drawing is a copy after the bearded figure of a poet depicted in the lower right corner of Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican.
  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)