Alexander Preserving the Works of Homer

An outline-etching reproducing the composition of a small grisaille fresco painted beneath the Parnassus in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican. Lettered with title and location of the work. Lettered at upper centre above image: I. Published in Montagnani, 'Illustrazione storico-pittorica con incisioni a contorni delle pitture nelle stanze vaticane di Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino', Rome 1830, plate 6.

In the Ashmolean Museum is kept a drawing of this subject attributed to Raphael (inv. no.WA1935.152), later engraved by Marcantonio Raimondi in c.1520. For a first state impression of Marcantonio's engraving and further discussion, see RCIN 852517.