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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

The Fire in the Borgo

after 1860

Carbon print | RCIN 852816

A photograph reproducing the fresco of 'The Fire in Borgo', painted by Raphael and his workshop in 1514 in the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican. Annotated in pencil on the back. Not in Ruland (1876).
  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)