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 3100905
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2] leaves, [9] leaves of plates : port., col. ill. ; fol. Pencil price on front pastedown: "6/10/0". Provenance: Late eighteenth-century anonymous pictorial bookplate (not in Franks): shield with helmet above, surrounded by books and musical and scientific instruments, with motto 'Semper fidelis' [arms are those of Sir John Smith of Sydling St. Nicholas, Dorset (1744-1807)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, marbled paper over boards; recessed cords; red morocco spine label (gilt lettered): 'Cost of the Russi Army'.
Makers and roles
James Godby (1769-1820), engraver (printmaker) Aleksandr Osipovich Orlovskiĭ,(1777-1832) , artist Edward Orme (1775- 1848), engraver and publisher