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The so-called Raphael Cartoons are seven full size designs for tapestries by the great Italian Renaissance artist Raphael (1483-1520). They illustrate passages from the Bible concerning the lives of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. None of them is smaller than ten feet high by thirteen feet wide. They belong to Her Majesty the Queen and have been on loan to this museum since 1865. The earliest print relating to the Raphael Cartoons dates from 1516, the year in which Raphael received final payment for the commission. It inaugurates an extraordinary case study in the history of printmaking, stretching over more than four hundred and fifty years and across a wide range of printmaking techniques.\r\n\r\nThis is the Latin titlepage to Nicholas Dorigny's set of prints of the Cartoons. It describes how the Cartoons were commissioned by Pope Leo X as designs for tapestries and were bought by the future King Charles I on the advice of the painter Rubens. \"King William (in order that he should enjoy work so distinguished, already celebrated througout the world and so exceptional, in this type of royal furnishing, due to him in grandeur) placed them permanently for their safety in the said Palace of Hampton Court.\" The text also records that the prints took seven years to complete.\r\n\r\nNicholas Dorigny's prints were the subject of an editorial in the 'Spectator' on the 19th November 1711. \"These invaluable pieces are very justly in the Hands of the greatest and most pious sovereign in the World; and cannot be the frequent object of every one at their own leisure; but an engraver is to a painter, what a printer is to an author it is worthy Her Majesty's name, that she has encouraged that noble artist Monsieur Dorigny to publish these works of Raphael.\" Writing in 1722 about the works of Raphael in Rome, Jonathan Richardson said \"That I should write upon what I never saw may appear strange to some; Such may please only to obeserve that My remarks are chiefly upon the way of thinking itself.\"\r\n\r\nThe engraver and antiquarian George Vertue had met and spoken with Dorigny. Vertue records that \"several gentlemen of note travelling to Rome there found Mr Dorigny who was then in the highest reputation for several engraved works after Raphael. These got him justly the reputation of the first engraver in Europe for which reason several Curious persons persuaded & engaged him to come to England to undertake those Famous Cartons at Hampton Court painted by Raphael...From his coming to England [in 1711] I may justly date the rise of the reputation of the engraving.\" According to George Vertue, Dorigny acknowledged trying to imitate the great French engraver Gérard Audran when he was studying to improve his engraving style.\r\n\r\nThe first proposal was that Dorigny engrave the Cartoons for the exclusive use of Queen Anne as presents for the nobility and visiting diplomats. Dorigny's price for the work of £4000-£5000 meant this idea was quashed and the prints were sold by subscription at four guineas a set. Dorigny was provided with limited royal patronage in the form of lodgings at Hampton Court, coals, and a bottle of wine a day.\r\n\r\nThe lettering in this set of prints is entirely in Latin underlining how they were aimed at an elite educated market. Listed are the titles, biblical quotations, details of the lcoations of the Cartoons and their sizes.\r\n\r\nQueen Anne had died while Dorigny was still at work. On the first of April 1719 Dorigny presented to King George I two sets of his newly completed prints of the Cartoons. On the 13th June 1720 Dorigny received a knighthood. He was the first of only two individuals in the history of British art to be knighted for having made particular prints. 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Rom, Raphael Sancius Urbanas Pictorum facile Princeps / coloribus aqua dilutis pinxit in chartis in Aulaeorum texturam: Multosq: post annos / Rex Carolus Primus, is suadente Petro Paulo Rubens Equite, magno pretio emptas, ex / Flandria ubi praefata Autoea confecta fuerunt, in Angliam advehi jussit: Deinde vero / Gulielmus Rex (ut opus tam insigne, toto jam Orbe celeberrimum, praecipuumq; in hoc / genere Regni ornamentum, debita gauderet majestate) in Palatio Hampton-Court dicto, XII. / a Londino passuum millibus, in perpetuum conservandas fixit: Eas demum, favente, quin / et preoposita praemij spe, excitante Regina Anna, maxima qua potuit diligentia delineatas, et / Inclytae Nationis Britannicae de se optime meritae, bonarumq, Artium amantissimae gratia aere / incisas / Optimo, et Munificentissimo / Principi / Sub cujus felicibus auspicijs tam arduus, Septem Scilicet annorum, labor ad finem / tandem perductus est / Humillime offert, et dedicat / Eq. 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