John Flaxman RA, Drawing of the Holy Family group after Michelangelo's Doni Tondo, after 1811.
Watercolour wash over pencil on wove paper. 882 mm x 665 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photographer: Prudence Cuming Associates Limited.
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John Flaxman RA (1755 - 1826)
RA Collection: Art
882 mm x 665 mm
John Flaxman RA
The Braschi Venus, 1811
Brown wash over pencil on cream wove paper
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