Album of fourteen original watercolours taken on a trip from the Baltic to Russia and Persia. Includes excellent views of Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Simbirsk, Samara, Caucasian Mountains, the Caspian Sea and area near Isfahan.
RUSSIA, THE VOLGA, & THE CASPIAN.
Editorial: September-November, 1869
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A excellent group of very well-executed, high quality amateur watercolour views by a mid-nineteenth-century English traveller to Russia, including an unusual series of views of the Volga cities - Nizhny Novgorod, Simbirsk, Samara and "Ouswan opposite Kazan on Volga" - Verkhny Uslon village, located directly opposite Kazan on banks of the river. Other images offer appealing panoramas of the Caucasus Mountains and the shore of the Caspian Sea between Petrovskoye - fortress first erected in 1844, now Makhachkala capital of Dagestan - and Derbent, the country's second city; the Greater Caucasus with Mount Shahdag, 14,000 feet, now in Azerbaijan; and of the environs of Isfahan. There are also four excellent studies of Moscow showing the Kremlin, "Towers of Kremlin Moscow"; exterior and interior views of St. Basil's Cathedral, the famous domes, and inside a chapel; together with a sombre study of an abbess and a group of nuns. Also a lively street view titled "In the Suburbs of St Petersburg," with a fire watch tower, drozhkys and a four-horse omnibus. Two other views depict the harbour at Helsingborg and the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen. The images are accompanied by a hand drawn "Map of route from Hull to St Petersburg," covering the traveller's route across the Baltic Sea. Crisply, and meticulously detailed visual record of travels in Russia by a talented amateur observer. Folio (leaf size 370 x 260 mm; images c.210 x 120 mm) Later half sheep to style, old marbled boards, original label laid down, lozenges gilt to the compartments. Fourteen watercolours corner slit-mounted or tipped onto album leaves, neat calligraphic ink captions on the mounting leaves and occasional in a minuscule hand at the foot of the images by the artist. With a watercolour map/track chart loosely inserted. Overall very good. N° de ref. del artículo 100738
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Título: Album of fourteen original watercolours ...
Editorial: September-November, 1869
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