Vatican Frescoes
AFTER RAPHAEL (1483-1520)
Studies of a drapery and three hands
c.1853-76Albumen print | 33.2 x 23.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852511
A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1510) now in the British Museum, London (inv. no.Pp,1.74v). The drapery study is for the figure often identified as the Latin poet Horace, standing in the lower right corner of Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. The two lower hands also connect with this figure, while the other is for the right hand of one of the poets standing beneath trees on the same side of the fresco.
Creator(s)
After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)
Subject(s)
Horace (65-8 BC)33.2 x 23.5 cm (sheet of paper)
- Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- visual works
Bibliographic reference(s)
Catalogue of the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. v. P. Pouncey and J.A.Gere, Raphael and His Circle (1962); pp.25-6, no.29v
Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p.191, no.235v
Other number(s)
Ruland p.188 C.I.96
