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Set of two lithographic prints comprising:</br>lithographic print of drawing by Fra Bartolommeo entitled The Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints and Angels , originally drawn c.1508 </br>Pen and brown ink on paper rubbed with red chalk. The composition is clearly influenced by Giovanni Bellini probably drawn (c.1508) while Fra Bartolommeo was in Venice.</br>Print size inches: 6.5 x 8.1 together with lithographic print of painting by Benozzo Gozzoli entitled The Fall of Simon Magus, originally painted c.1462</br>Purchased by Prince Albert - Queen Victoria's husband from Mr. Warner Otterly in July 1946 for £25.The legend goes that Simon, a sorcerer, intending to prove his divine powers and ascend to Heaven, threw himself from a tower in front of Emperor Nero. St Peter then ordered the demons supporting him to let him fall and we witness his dead body lying prone in the centre of the foreground. Once attached as part of the predella painted for the Compagnia di San Marco, affiliated to San Marco in Florence, Gozzoli was contracted to paint this oil on poplar panel on October 23rd 1461 when his reputation was at its height. The altarpiece itself was dismembered in 1802 and its various parts dispersed.</br>Print size inches: 8.7 x 6.2