Russian cries, : in correct portraiture / from drawings done on the spot by G. Orlowski; and now in the possession of the Rt. Honble. Lord Kinnaird.
Aleksandr Osipovich Orlovskiĭ,(1777-1832)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1809
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3006684.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8] leaves of plates ; fol. Bound with 'The costume of the Russian Army' (1807) 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
Aleksandr Osipovich Orlovskiĭ,(1777-1832) , artist James Godby (1769-1820), engraver (printmaker)