Vatican Frescoes
WILLIAM BAMBRIDGE (1820-79)
Study for Dante's drapery
dated 1863Photozincograph | 34.9 x 24.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852480
A photozincograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1510) currently in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 812760v). Lettered with production details.
The drapery study connects with the figure of Dante, standing in the upper left of Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. A photograph of the drawing at RCIN 852479.
The drapery study connects with the figure of Dante, standing in the upper left of Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. A photograph of the drawing at RCIN 852479.
Creator(s)
William Bambridge (1820-79) (photographer)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
34.9 x 24.4 cm (sheet of paper)
Study for the figure of Dante, in the "Parnassus"; by Raphael.
- Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Poets
- Places
- Europe
- Greece
- Mount Parnassus [Greece]
- Greece
- Europe
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.192, no.241r (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)
pp.73-6, no.18v (Clayton 1999 : Clayton, M. Raphael and his Circle. Drawings from Windsor Castle, London)
