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After Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1470/1482 - c. 1527/1534), printmaker
After Raphael (1483 - 1520), designer

Object name:print

The Martyrdom of St Cecilia

Series title:

engraving, c. 1520 - 1525

Published in 

236 x 396 mm Sheet

Reference:
Bartsch XIV.104.117 (copy)
Shoemaker (1984), 55

Inscriptions:
RA.VR.IN / MAF (right of image, on Jupiter's throne)

Provenance:
Francis Douce (L. 689) (verso, on secondary support)
Bodleian Library

Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.; WA1863.5451

Comment:
A print translating a Raphael design for a fresco in the San Giovanni Chapel at the papal Villa Magliana. See also comment at WA1863.5453.

Bartsch: Adam Von Bartsch, Le Peintre Graveur, 21 vols (Vienna: J. von Degen, 1803-1821)
Shoemaker: Lawrence: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas; Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, 1981, The Engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi, Innis H. Shoemaker and Elizabeth Broun, eds (Lawrence: Allen Press, 1981)
L.: Frits Lugt, Les marques de collection de dessins and d'estampes [...], 2 vols (Amesterdam, Vereenigde Drukkerijen, 1921-1956)

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