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A cartoon for the tapestry of Christ's Charge to Peter for the Sistine Chapel. Christ is standing on the left, pointing behind himself to a flock of sheep and in front to the keys held by Peter, who is kneeling. The other disciples stand in a group at the

Prince Albert and Raphael

The Raphael Collection is one of Prince Albert's lasting legacies

LOUIS HAGHE (1806-85)

The Ballroom, Buckingham Palace, 17 June 1856

signed and dated 1856

Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour | 31.7 x 47.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 919910

The third hour of the nightCopyright: Royal Collection Enterprises Limited

Copies after the Hours of the Day and Night, frescoes which were widely attributed to Raphael in the nineteenth century, can clearly be seen on the left-hand side of Louis Haghe’s watercolour of the new ballroom at Buckingham Palace. Completed in 1856, its interior decoration was planned by Albert and his artistic advisor Ludwig Grüner. Elizabeth Eastlake, an art critic and wife of the Director of the National Gallery, pronounced herself ’enchanted’ with the design.

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