The costume of the Russian Army, : from a collection of drawings made on the spot, and now in possession of the Right Honourable the Earl [sic] of Kinnaird, containing a portrait of His Majesty the emperor of all the Russias.
James Godby (1769-1820)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1807
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3006684.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2] leaves, [9] leaves of plates : port., col. ill. ; fol. Bound with Orlowski's 'Russian cries' (1809) and Orne's 'Proposals for the Kinnaird Collection' (1809). Pencil notes on front pastedown: "820 Supp 2 1847 21 870". Ephemera: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy, price: £21. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter brown paper, buff paper over boards; coloured lithograph pasted onto upper board, printed title: 'Army of Russia containing the uniforms in portrait of the Russian soldiery'; recessed cords.
Makers and roles
James Godby (1769-1820), engraver (printmaker) Aleksandr Osipovich Orlovskiĭ,(1777-1832) , artist Edward Orme (1775- 1848), engraver and publisher