AFTER A WORK ATTRIBUTED TO RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

A Triton

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 13.6 x 9.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853742

A photograph of a drawing of a triton blowing a conch shell. Not in Ruland (1876); an annotation in a late nineteenth-century hand to the catalogue states that the drawing was then in the Uffizi at Florence. The annotation relates the drawing to a desorative element in the Loggia, designed by Raphael and executed by his workshop (c.1517-19) in the Vatican; it may perhaps be related to a now lost part of the decoration on an exterior pilaster, another element of which is reproduced in a print by Cherubino Alberto (see RCIN 853741 for an impression of this print). Annotated on verso.

A drawing which appears to be of the same composition is in the Musée Bonnat, Bayonne (inv.no.1226).

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After a work attributed to Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)
annotation: Pf. 39. 132; Insert R. Cat. / page 232, / 132a Photo of a pen / and ink washed sketch / of the Tritons; - in / the collection of the / Uffizi at Florence; Loggia LXIV 132^a [verso, top; centre; bottom, in pencil; all different hands?]
13.6 x 9.7 cm (sheet of paper)
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
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- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
  Decorative motifs
  Grotesques
- Religion & Theology
  Religions and faiths
  Religions of antiquity
  Classical mythology
  Triton (myth)
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
  Biological sciences
  Zoology
  Animals
  Shells (animal)
  Conch Shells
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Davidson 1985 : Davidson, Bernice F. Raphael's Bible. A Study of the Vatican Logge, 1985 pp.27-38

Dacos 2008: Dacos, N., The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure, 2008 pp.15-135

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Ruland p.232 B.132a(add)

A Triton

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