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After Parmigianino (1503 - 1540), printmaker
After Raphael (1483 - 1520), designer
Object name:print
St Peter and St John Healing the Cripples at the Gate of the Temple
Series title:
etching and chiaroscuro woodcut, c. 1515 - 1540
Published in
277 x 410 mm Sheet
Reference:
Bartsch XII.78.27 and Bartsch XVI.9.7.II
Inscriptions:
I.V.R (lower left) / Raffaelle del./ F. Parmegiano fecit (lower centre, in pen and ink)
Provenance:
Francis Douce (L. 689) (on verso)
Bodleian Library
Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.; WA1863.5520
Comment:
A print translating a Raphael design for one of the cartoons commissioned by Pope Leo X for tapestries in the Sistine Chapelat the Vatican Palace, now at the V&A. For comment see Massimo Mussini, Grazia Maria De Rubeis, eds, 'Parmigianino tradotto. La Fortunadi Francesco Mazzola nelle stampe di riproduzione fra il Ciquencento e l'Ottocento', Silvana Editore, Milano 2003, cat.2.