Raphael cartoon, Victoria and Albert Museum

Jan. 27, 1966 - A new setting for the Raphel Cartoons at the Victoria and Albert Museum: A new setting at the Voctoria and Albert Museum for the seven surviving cartoons for tapestries by Raphel has been designed by the Ministry of Public Building and Works in collaboration with the Museum authorities and the Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, Sir Anthony Blunt. Several new features have been added to the West Court wich houses them and which is being re-opened to the public on Friday 28th January. These cartoons belonging to the Queen, are among the most precious possessions in the royal and national collections, and the project was intended to improve the manner of showing them. The method hanging has been improved so that now, the enormous frames, weighing rather more than ton each, ar set on a hinges and can easily be manoeuvred away from the wall. The opportunity has also been taken to regild the frames, and to replace the greenish glass, which had falsified the colours of teh cartoons, with glass more purely transparent. Photo shows Christ's Charge to St. Peter-one of the cartoons at the Victoria and Albert Museum

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