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    AFTER A WORK COPYING THE WORKSHOP OF RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

    Moses parts the Red Sea

    c.1853-76

    Salted paper print | 19.7 x 32.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853528

    A photograph of a drawing in the Royal Collection (RCIN 990332) considered a copy from the fresco Moses parts the Red Sea painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the vault of the eighth bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican.

    • Creator(s)

      After a work copying the workshop of Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

      Subject(s)

      Moses(OT)

    • annotation: Bottom / T 157 / [illegible] [verso, top centre, in ink]

    • 19.7 x 32.4 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Acquired for 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
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      P&W : Popham, A.E. & Wilde, J., 1949. The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, London no.848

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.221 B.XXXI.4

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