Vatican Frescoes
Study for the figure of Virgil
c.1853-76Albumen print | RCIN 852496
A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1510) now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.inv. no.WA1846.182v). The drapery study is for the figure of Virgil, standing a little behind Homer to the left of the central group in Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican.
- Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
