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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

    AFTER A WORK BY A FOLLOWER OF RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

    Jacob asks for Rachel as wife

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | 20.8 x 22.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853478

    A photograph of a drawing in the Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth (inv. no.2465), catalogued by Ruland (1876) as 'probably after' the fresco Jacob asks for Rachel as wife painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the vault of the sixth bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican.

    • Creator(s)

      After a work by a follower of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

      Subject(s)

      Jacob(OT)
      Rachel (OT)

    • 20.8 x 22.4 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

    • Subject(s)
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Christianity
            • Bible & Holy Scripture
              • Old Testament
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
    • Other number(s)

      Ruland p.219 B.XXIII.5

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