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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

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

Moses strikes the rock at Horeb

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 22.7 x 28.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853538

A photograph of a drawing in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv.no.WA1846.289), considered a copy from the fresco 'Moses strikes the rock at Horeb' painted by the workshop of Raphael (c.1517-19) in the vault of the eighth bay of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican. The drawing is inscribed 'di Raffaell Sanzio da Urbino'. 
  • Creator(s)

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

  • T152 / Rock [?]

  • 22.7 x 28.3 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