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    AFTER A WORK ATTRIBUTED TO GIOVANNI FRANCESCO PENNI (1496-C. 1536)

    Moses presents the Tablets of the Law

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | 20.7 x 28.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853560

    A photograph of a drawing in the Royal Collection (RCIN 990414) which is considered a copy after a lost drawing attributed to Giovanni Francesco Penni for the fresco 'Moses presents the Tablets of the Law' painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the vault of the ninth bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican.

    • Creator(s)

      After a work attributed to Giovanni Francesco Penni (1496-c. 1536) (artist)

    • Bottom / 156; T156

    • 20.7 x 28.0 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
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      p.321, no.849 (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)

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