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Lithographic Prints - Raphael Paintings (Set of Two)
Lithographic Prints - Raphael Paintings (Set of Two)
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Set of two lithographic prints comprising:
lithographic print of painting by Raphael entitled Christ’s Charge to Peter (Detail), originally painted c.1516
A section of his large Cartoons which were thought lost and later rediscovered at Genoa in 1623, Charles I instructed Sir Francis Crane, manager of the tapestry factory at Mortlake, London to purchase the Cartoons for £300.The original Cartoons are painted on paper in sized colours; the under-drawing is in charcoal and much of it is still visible. Seven of the Cartoons survive from the series of ten commissioned by Pope Leo X to serve as designs for tapestries which were to be woven in Flanders and hung in the Sistine Chapel. The tapestries illustrate the lives of St. Peter and St. Paul.
Print size inches: 7.9 x 9.4 together with lithographic print of painting by Raphael entitled St. Paul Preaching at Athens (Detail), originally painted c.1516
A section of his large Cartoons which were thought lost and later rediscovered at Genoa in 1623, Charles I instructed Sir Francis Crane, manager of the tapestry factory at Mortlake, London to purchase the Cartoons for £300.The original Cartoons are painted on paper in sized colours; the under-drawing is in charcoal and much of it is still visible. Seven of the Cartoons survive from the series of ten commissioned by Pope Leo X to serve as designs for tapestries which were to be woven in Flanders and hung in the Sistine Chapel. The tapestries illustrate the lives of St. Peter and St. Paul.
Print size inches: 6.8 x 9.5
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