1945 Photogravure Figure Draw Sketch Study Woman Nude Venus Raphael XAN1 XEX5 Mallory engineered the contacts for

Mallory engineered the contacts for the "world's biggest eye" the observatory and telescope at Mount Palomar

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designed by Maxwell Armfield in 1915

1945 Photogravure Figure Draw Sketch Study Woman Nude Venus Raphael XAN1 XEX5 Mallory engineered the contacts forThis is an original 1945 black and white photogravure of a silverpoint drawing of Venus. Silverpoint is a drawing technique where the artist uses a silver wire to scratch the 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. CONDITION This 66+ year old Item is rated Very Fine ++.