Johann Jacob von Sandrart (1655-98)
Figures fleeing from a city devastated by a fire [from 'The Fire in the Borgo'] dated 1682
Etching | 42.8 x 34.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852825
![Figures fleeing from a city devastated by a fire [from 'The Fire in the Borgo']](https://col.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/a/a/759808-1527589748.jpg?itok=js0Id4WR "Figures fleeing from a city devastated by a fire [from 'The Fire in the Borgo']")
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A print reproducing (with additions and a few changes) the left-hand part of Raphael's fresco of The Fire in the Borgo, painted in 1514 in the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican. Dated and with artists' names along the lower margin below image. Lettered at upper right with: O, followed by a stylised star (?).
Ruland (1876) followed Passavant (1860) in describing this print as after a small painting then in the possession of J.J. Sandrart, who described it in his work entitled Der Teutsche Academie. This print has also been included as illustration in Sandrart's Nobilissimae Artis Pictoriae (published in 1683).Provenance
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
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42.8 x 34.2 cm (sheet of paper)
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Raphael Invenit 1985 : G. Bernini Pezzini et al., Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 1985 p.55, no.I.3 (entry by Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò)
