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Raphael Morghen

Also known as: Raphael Morghen; primary name: Morghen, Raffaello; other name: Morghen, Raphael
Details: individual; printmaker; Italian; Male
Life dates: 1758-1833
Biography: The famous neo-classic line-engraver. b. Naples, 1778 pupil of Volpato in Rome, and married his daughter. Moved to Florence in 1793 where appointed professor at engraving academy, and remained. Tomb in Santa Croce (see Apollo 1974, p.245). For the Tarnia collection of his work in the BM, see under 1843,0513.591. The Tarnia collection is kept in its original albums, to which impressions from other sources have been added. It is accompanied by an inventory in Italian written by Luigi Bardi.
Bibliography: N.Palmerini, 'Catalogo delle opere d'intaglio del ... RM', Florence 1810 (3rd ed. 1824; 252 nos) Alfred Maskell, 'RM's engraved works in the collection of Sir Thomas Brassey', 1882 (proof copy, numbering incomplete, but very useful information) Lugt 2226 (blindstamp put on proofs by Morghen apparently at a late stage in his career)

839 related objects

drawing

Museum number: 1843,0513.1226 |
Producer name: BIOG39426 Drawn by:Raphael Morghen |
Production date: 1775

drawing

Museum number: 1843,0513.1227 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Frans Snyders |
Production date: 1758-1833

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1843,0513.1177.1-8 |
Producer name: Published by:Giovanni Battista BodoniPublished by:Giovanni Volpato |
Production date: 1784 |
Production place: Published in:Parma (city)

illustrated book; book

Museum number: 1843,0513.1168 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenPrint made by:Giovanni Volpato |
Production date: 1789 |
Production place: Published in:Parma (city)

print

Title: Sua Altezza Imperiale e Reale l'Arciduca Ferdinando III Granduca di Toscana |
Museum number: 1843,0513.849 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Johann Ender |
Production date: 1821 |
Production place: Published in:Florence (city)

print

Title: Noli me tangere |
Museum number: 1868,0822.90 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Federico Barocci |
Production date: 1816 |
Production place: Published in:Florence (city)

print

Museum number: 1843,0513.623 |
Producer name: BIOG39426 Print made by:Raphael Morghen |
Production date: 1780-1784

print

Title: Noli me tangere |
Museum number: 1843,0513.1028 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Federico Barocci |
Production date: 1816 |
Production place: Published in:Florence (city)

print

Title: Noli me tangere |
Museum number: 1843,0513.1030 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Federico Barocci |
Production date: 1816 |
Production place: Published in:Florence (city)

print

Museum number: 1843,0513.617 |
Producer name: BIOG39426 Print made by:Raphael Morghen |
Production date: 1780-1784

print

Museum number: 1845,0507.15 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Andrea del Sarto |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:Florence (city)

print

Title: Mater Pulchrae Dilectionis |
Museum number: 1843,0513.1025 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Raphael |
Production date: 1814 |
Production place: Published in:Florence (city)

print

Title: Mater Pulchrae Dilectionis |
Museum number: 1843,0513.1021 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Raphael |
Production date: 1814 |
Production place: Published in:Florence (city)

print

Title: Salus nostra in manu tua |
Museum number: 1843,0513.730 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Raphael |
Production date: 1832

print

Title: La Madonna col Bambino |
Museum number: 1843,0513.699 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Andrea del Sarto |
Production date: 1787

print

Museum number: 1843,0513.1078 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Andrea del Sarto |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:Florence (city)

print

Museum number: 1843,0513.1077 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Andrea del Sarto |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:Florence (city)

print

Title: Mater Pulchrae Dilectionis |
Museum number: 1843,0513.1023 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Raphael |
Production date: 1814 |
Production place: Published in:Florence (city)

print

Title: La Madonna col Bambino |
Museum number: 1843,0513.700 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Andrea del Sarto |
Production date: 1787

print

Museum number: 1867,0413.606 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Raphael |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:Florence (city)

print

Museum number: V,4.101 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Raphael |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:Florence (city)

print

Title: Salus nostra in manu tua |
Museum number: 1843,0513.731 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Raphael |
Production date: 1832

print

Title: Theologia |
Museum number: 1843,0513.986 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Raphael |
Production date: 1779-1781

print

Title: Philosophia |
Museum number: 1844,0704.4 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Raphael |
Production date: 1779-1781

print

Museum number: 1843,0513.1131 |
Producer name: BIOG39426 Print made by:Raphael Morghen |
Production date: 1805

print

Title: La Poesie |
Museum number: 1843,0513.982 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Gavin Hamilton |
Production date: 1779

print

Title: Poesis |
Museum number: 1843,0513.983 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Raphael |
Production date: 1779-1781

print

Title: Pulchriores Charitum pingunt Charitatis amorem |
Museum number: 1837,0408.547 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Antonio Correggio |
Production date: 1795

print

Museum number: 1837,0408.548 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Ignaz Unterberger |
Production date: 1795

print

Title: Elisa Grande Duchesse de Toscane Princesse de Lucques & de Piombino |
Museum number: 1843,0513.822 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Salomon Guillaume Counis |
Production date: 1814

print

Title: Raphaelis amicitia celeberrima La Fornarina |
Museum number: 1843,0513.924 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Sebastiano del Piombo |
Production date: 1814

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1843,0513.697 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Jean Grandjean |
Production date: 1781

print

Museum number: 1843,0513.773 |
Producer name: BIOG39426 Print made by:Raphael Morghen |
Production date: 1793

print

Title: Georgius Jonas Mayer Augsburgensis aetate ann. LXXX |
Museum number: 1843,0513.886 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Johann Georg Edlinger |
Production date: 1801

print

Title: Leonardo da Vinci |
Museum number: 1843,0513.939 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Leonardo da Vinci |
Production date: 1817

print

Title: Leonardo da Vinci |
Museum number: 1843,0513.937 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Leonardo da Vinci |
Production date: 1817

print

Title: Et transfiguratus est ante eos |
Museum number: 1865,0610.1381 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenPrint made by:Antonio Morghen |
Production date: 1795-1800

print

Title: Antonio Canova |
Museum number: 1868,0822.7302 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Pietro Benvenuti |
Production date: 1823

print

Museum number: 1843,0513.1239 |
Producer name: BIOG41024 Print made by:Nicolo Palmerini |
Production date: 1800-1833

print

Museum number: 1843,0513.1093 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Louis Ducros |
Production date: 1780

print

Museum number: 1850,1109.281 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Francesco Londonio |
Production date: 1770-1778

print

Title: Napoleon, Empereur des François, Roi d'Italie ... |
Museum number: 1843,0513.913 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Baron François Gérard |
Production date: 1807

print; book-illustration

Title: Dante Alighieri |
Museum number: 1843,0513.684 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenIntermediary draughtsman:Stefano Tofanelli |
Production date: 1806

print

Title: Raphael Morghen |
Museum number: 1843,0513.1240 |
Producer name: BIOG82868 Print made by:Paolo Caronni |
Production date: 1811

print

Title: Leonardo da Vinci |
Museum number: 1867,0413.603 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Leonardo da Vinci |
Production date: 1817

print

Title: Son Excellence Da. Rosalia Ventimiglia e Moncada Duchess de Berwick et d'Albe &c. |
Museum number: 1843,0513.865 |
Producer name: BIOG39426 Print made by:Raphael Morghen |
Production date: 1822

print

Title: La Poesia |
Museum number: 1870,1112.363 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Carlo Dolci |
Production date: 1827

print

Title: Michelangiolo Buonarroti |
Museum number: 1843,0513.977 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenPrinted by:Luigi Bardi |
Production date: 1829

print

Title: Ludovico Ariosto |
Museum number: 1843,0513.964 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Pietro Ermini |
Production date: 1807

print

Title: Sic Magdalena Maerens Coelica Gaudia Quaerit |
Museum number: 1843,0513.1016 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Bartolomé Esteban Murillo |
Production date: 1800-1801

print

Title: Portrait de Jeanne d'Aragon Musée Royal |
Museum number: 1843,0513.1034 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Raphael |
Production date: 1821

print

Title: Léon X |
Museum number: 1844,0704.9 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Raphael |
Production date: 1815

print

Title: Adeodato Turchi ... |
Museum number: 1872,0810.105 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Francisco Vieira 'Portuense' |
Production date: 1800

print

Title: Ferdinandus IV |
Museum number: 1873,0809.541 |
Producer name: BIOG39426 Print made by:Raphael Morghen |
Production date: 1778-1816

print

Title: La Poesia |
Museum number: 1850,1109.296 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Carlo Dolci |
Production date: 1827

print

Title: Portrait de Jeanne d'Aragon |
Museum number: 1843,0513.1032 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Raphael |
Production date: 1821

print

Title: Salvatore |
Museum number: 1843,0513.726 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Carlo Dolci |
Production date: 1815

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1843,0513.652 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Stefano Tofanelli |
Production date: 1789

print; book-illustration

Title: Ferdinandus IV |
Museum number: 1843,0513.657 |
Producer name: BIOG39426 Print made by:Raphael Morghen |
Production date: 1789

print

Title: Sic Magdalena Maerens Coelica Gaudia Quaerit |
Museum number: 1870,1112.373 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Bartolomé Esteban Murillo |
Production date: 1800-1801

print

Title: Sic Deus dilexit Mundum |
Museum number: 1843,0513.748 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Carlo Dolci |
Production date: 1818

print

Title: Torquato Tasso |
Museum number: 1843,0513.901 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Pietro Ermini |
Production date: 1807

print

Title: Ludovico Ariosto |
Museum number: 1843,0513.965 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Pietro Ermini |
Production date: 1807

print

Title: Carlo Goldoni |
Museum number: 1843,0513.800 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Antonio Fedi |
Production date: 1819

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1843,0513.664 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Giovanni Battista Mengardi |
Production date: 1791-1794

print

Title: Raphael Morghen |
Museum number: 1868,0808.2457 |
Producer name: BIOG82868 Print made by:Paolo Caronni |
Production date: 1811

print

Title: Tres sunt qui testimonium dant in coelo |
Museum number: 1843,0513.740 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Leonardo da Vinci |
Production date: 1817

print

Title: Sic Deus dilexit Mundum |
Museum number: 1843,0513.746 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Carlo Dolci |
Production date: 1818

print

Museum number: 1843,0513.718 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenPrint made by:Giuseppe Calendi |
Production date: 1804

print

Museum number: 1843,0513.595 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Baccio Bandinelli |
Production date: 1770-1778

print

Title: S. Philippo Nerio Patri |
Museum number: 1843,0513.777 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Stefano Tofanelli |
Production date: 1802

print; document

Museum number: 1843,0513.1150 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Giovanni Antonio Santarelli |
Production date: 1822-1833

print

Title: Sua Altezza Imperiale e Reale Maria Ferdinanda Principessa di Sassonia Granduchessa di Toscana |
Museum number: 1843,0513.853 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Vincenzo Gozzini |
Production date: 1822

print; counterproof

Title: Amen dico vobis quia unus vestrum me traditurus est |
Museum number: 1843,0513.1086 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Leonardo da Vinci |
Production date: 1800

print

Museum number: 1868,0822.96 |
Producer name: BIOG39426 Print made by:Raphael Morghen |
Production date: 1817

print

Title: Sua Altezza Imperiale e Reale l'Arciduca Ferdinando III Granduca di Toscana |
Museum number: 1843,0513.847 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Johann Ender |
Production date: 1821

print

Title: Maria Carolina Utriusque Siciliae Regina aet. XX An. |
Museum number: 1843,0513.611 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Francesco Liani |
Production date: 1777

print

Title: Sua Altezza Imperiale e Reale l'Arciduca Ferdinando III Granduca di Toscana |
Museum number: 1843,0513.845 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Johann Ender |
Production date: 1821

print

Title: Francesco Petrarca |
Museum number: 1843,0513.897 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Stefano Tofanelli |
Production date: 1805

print

Title: Fides salvam fecit |
Museum number: 1843,0513.1218 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Carlo Dolci |
Production date: 1823

print

Title: Portrait de Jeanne d'Aragon |
Museum number: 1843,0513.1033 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Raphael |
Production date: 1821

print

Title: Louis XVIII Roi de France |
Museum number: 1844,0704.18 |
Producer name: BIOG39426 Print made by:Raphael Morghen |
Production date: 1803

print

Title: Sir Egerton Brydges |
Museum number: 1848,1125.265 |
Producer name: Print made by:Giovanni Battista NocchiPrint made by:Raphael Morghen |
Production date: 1820

print

Title: Carlo Goldoni |
Museum number: 1843,0513.799 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Antonio Fedi |
Production date: 1819

print

Title: Ludovico Ariosto |
Museum number: 1868,0822.95 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Pietro Ermini |
Production date: 1807

print

Title: Ioannes Fantonius |
Museum number: 1843,0513.812 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Francesco Tenderini |
Production date: 1822

print

Title: Lorenzo de' Medici |
Museum number: 1843,0513.949 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Giorgio Vasari |
Production date: 1820

print

Museum number: 1843,0513.887 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Raphael |
Production date: 1803

print

Title: Tres sunt qui testimonium dant in coelo |
Museum number: 1843,0513.741 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Leonardo da Vinci |
Production date: 1817

print

Title: Alessandro Volta |
Museum number: 1843,0513.784 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Luigi Sabatelli |
Production date: 1816

print

Title: Francesco Guicciardini |
Museum number: 1843,0513.789 |
Producer name: BIOG39426 Print made by:Raphael Morghen |
Production date: 1819

print; book-illustration

Title: Vittorio Alfieri da Asti |
Museum number: 1843,0513.675 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:François Xavier Fabre |
Production date: 1791-1794

print; book-illustration

Title: Dante Alighieri |
Museum number: 1843,0513.683 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenIntermediary draughtsman:Stefano Tofanelli |
Production date: 1806

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1843,0513.662 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Giovanni Battista Mengardi |
Production date: 1791-1794

print; counterproof

Title: Amen dico vobis quia unus vestrum me traditurus est |
Museum number: 1843,0513.1084 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Leonardo da Vinci |
Production date: 1800

print

Title: Et transfiguratus est ante eos |
Museum number: 1843,0513.1056 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Raphael |
Production date: 1801-1811

print

Title: Dante Alighieri |
Museum number: 1843,0513.894 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Stefano Tofanelli |
Production date: 1803

print

Title: La Poesia |
Museum number: 1868,0822.94 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Carlo Dolci |
Production date: 1827

print

Title: Adeodato Turchi |
Museum number: 1843,0513.875 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Francisco Vieira 'Portuense' |
Production date: 1800

print

Title: Amen dico vobis quia unus vestrum me traditurus est |
Museum number: 1843,0513.1085 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphael MorghenAfter:Leonardo da Vinci |
Production date: 1800

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