1945 Photogravure Fighting Men Study Sketch Raphael Nude Renaissance XAN1 XME7 Managing Director

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This is an original 1873 black and white in-text wood engraving of an illustration by Sir Sydney Prior Hall (1842-1922) that depicts scenes from the annual Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race that was held along the River Thames in London

This is an original 1930 color tipped-in print depicting a Spanish gateway by John Littlejohns

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1945 Photogravure Fighting Men Study Sketch Raphael Nude Renaissance XAN1 XME7 Managing DirectorThis is an original 1945 black and white photogravure of a leadpoint study of men fighting. Leadpoint is a medium of drawing where the artist uses a metal tipped lead drawing tool to create drawings. Raphael was a painter and architect of the High Renaissance period. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. CONDITION This 66+ year old Item is rated