print
- Museum number
- 1858,0417.1582
- Title
- Series: Christ and Apostles
- Description
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Christ standing and raising his right hand in benediction and holding a banner in his left
Engraving
- Production date
- 1517-1527
- Dimensions
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Height: 215 millimetres
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Width: 120 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Copy with slight variations after Marcantonio Raimondi's engraving of the same subject, see 1857,0711.1. Marcantonio's original is part of a series of thirteen prints representing the Saviour and the twelve Apostles after those painted by Raphael in the Sala dei Palafrenieri in the Vatican in 1517. These designs were also replicated in fresco on the pilasters of the church of S. Vincenzo and Anastasio alle Tre Fontane in Rome and have been linked by Harprath to the designs used for the silver statuettes (now lost) commissioned between 1518-19 by Leo X for the altar of the Sistine Chapel.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1858
- Acquisition notes
- The group of 58 prints was selected from the Italian prints of Heywood Hawkins's collection which Colnaghi had purchased en bloc, and given the first refusal to the BM. See Carpenter's report dated 20 January 1858.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1858,0417.1582
