Plato. Drawing after Raphael, ca. 1793.

  • Raphael, 1483-1520.
Date:
[1793?]
Reference:
31815i
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Plato. Drawing after Raphael, ca. 1793. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Head of a bearded man directed to right: the head of Plato holding a volume of the Timaeus in the School of Athens by Raphael. Drawing accompanying the collection of drawings for J.C. Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, trans. H. Hunter, London 1789-1798. An engraving of this drawing has not been identified in that book

Thomas Holloway (1748-1827) supervised the artwork for the English version of the book. This included re-engraving many of the works from the original German and French publications. This is one in a series of drawings prepared for the English version

Publication/Creation

[London], [1793?]

Physical description

1 drawing : graphite

Reference

Wellcome Collection 31815i

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