1945 Photogravure Study Drapery Figure Head Raphael Renaissance Silverpoint XAN1 SF3 Kalispell Montana

Kalispell Montana

Clipper Route

There is some light aging in the margins

This is an original 1925 photogravure of the Thermae or Baths at Hadrian's Villa (Villa Adriana) in Tivoli

This is an original 1937 Great Depression Era color print ad for Vapor-Vacuum Sealing by the White Cap Company

1945 Photogravure Study Drapery Figure Head Raphael Renaissance Silverpoint XAN1 SF3 Kalispell MontanaThis is an original 1945 black and white photogravure of a study of drapery on the left, and a study of a man's head on the right. These studies were done in silverpoint which is created by dragging a silver rod or wire across a surface. 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.