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Ugo da Carpi (c. 1480 - 1532), printmaker
After Raphael(1483 - 1520), designer

Object name:print

Hero and Sibyl (or Raphael and His Mistress)

Series title:

chiaroscuro woodcut, c. 1518

Published in 

153 x 108 mm Sheet

Reference:
Bartsch XII.140.2

Inscriptions:
PER. VGO. DA CARPI (bottom centre of image, mostly cropped)

Provenance:
Nicholas Lanier (undescribed in Lugt) (top left)
Francis Douce
Bodleian Library

Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.; WA1863.1696

Comment:
For the collector's marks belonging to Nicholas Lanier, see Jeremy Wood, 'Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666) and the origins of drawingcollecting in Stuart England', in 'Collecting prints and drawings in Europe, c. 1500-1750', Christopher Baker, Caroline Elam and Genevieve Warwick eds., Aldershot 2003.