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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

AFTER A WORK COPYING RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

A woman carrying a child and leading another

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 13.9 x 9.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852751

A photograph of a drawing now in the British Museum, London (inv. no.PP.1-77), corresponding with figures in God Appearing to Noah, one of the four scenes painted in the vault of the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican. The copyist may have based his drawing either upon Marcantonio's engraving of the same subject (see RCIN 852644) or upon a lost design for the fresco.
  • Creator(s)

    After a work copying Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

  • 13.9 x 9.6 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Subject(s)
    • People
      • Children
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    Catalogue of the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. v. P. Pouncey and J.A.Gere, Raphael and His Circle (1962); p.150, no.252

    Other number(s)

    Ruland p.204 F.I.9