Vatican Frescoes
Vatican Frescoes
The Parnassus
c.1853-76Albumen print | RCIN 852475
A photograph of a drawing currently in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.272). The drawing is a copy of a lost original design by Raphael, apparently an early study for the composition of the Parnassus fresco, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican.
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
