after the fresco by Raphael for the Stanza d’Eliodoro issued in ‘Pitture di Rafael d’Urbino nelle Stanze e Loggie del Palazzo Vaticano’ (‘Picturae Raphaelis Sancti Urbinatis…’), a series of suitably decorative large plates commemorating the enormous project for Raphael to decorate the ‘logge’, a long arcaded corridor in the Vatican, first commissioned by Pope Julius II in 1508, continued under Pope Leo X from 1513, and completed after Raphael’s death in 1520,
engraving, 495 x 685 mm. (19 1/2 x 27 in), two vertical folds with repaired splits at both ends, a few other repaired marginal tears, other small losses at sheet edges, a soft diagonal crease in the right half of the sheet, other minor handling creases,