The School Of Raphael, Or, The Student's Guide To Expression In Historical Painting: Ilustrated By Examples Engraved By Duchange, And Others, Under The Inspection Of Sir Nicholas Dorigny, From His Own Drawings, After The most celebrated Heads in the Cartoons at the King's Palace. To Which Are Now Added, The Outlines Of Each Head, And Also Several Plates Of The Most Celebrated Antique Statutes, Skeletons, And Anatomical Figures, Engraved by an Eminent Artist. With Instructions For Young Students In The Art Of Designing. And The Passions, As Characterised By Raphael In The Cartoons. Described And Explained By Benjamin Ralph
The School of Raphael is a 1804 English drawing manual by Benjamin Ralph, with plates engraved by Duchange and others after Nicolas Dorigny's drawings of heads from Raphael's cartoons. It was written for young students learning to draw the passions in historical painting. The pictures are paired head studies in pen-like line engraving, with curling hair, turned profiles, and handwritten captions naming the figures, so a designer can study how emotion is shown through brow, mouth, and hair.
