Russian Cries, in Correct Portraiture from Drawings taken on the spot by G. Orlowski now in the possession of the Right Hon. Lord Kinnaird, first edition, engraved hand-coloured title and 8 hand-coloured plates. Dated 1809, but watermarked 1824. Folio (36 x 27 cm). Modern binding 1. A bread seller, 2. Kavias fresh (?), 3. A Peasant in a Too Loop, 4. Miasnick, or Butchers meat, 5. Water Carrier, 6. Good turnery wares, 7. Cranbery liquor good, 8. Tea hot! ***Charles Kinnaird, the 8th Lord Kinnaird (1780-1826) was a representative of a noble Scottish family, art collector and patron of the arts. In 1802, Orłowski moved to St. Petersburg, where he became a member of the Academy of Arts in 1809. An artist with a stormy, romantic temperament, Orłowski produced a large number of battle and genre scenes, representations of horsemen and soldiers, and landscapes (with nocturnal lighting and depictions of shipwrecks). These works are marked by affected images and by a free, painterly technique. The democratic quality of Orłowski s work and the artist s extraordinary powers of observation are clearly reflected in drawings, watercolours, and guaches depicting scenes from the daily life of the common people, various social and ethnic types in Russia, and life in St. Petersburg and the Russian village. One of the first artists to employ the technique of lithography, Orłowski executed a number of individual sheets in this medium, along with album-series that gained wide renown among his contemporaries.

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Title: Russian Cries, in Correct Portraiture from Drawings taken on the spot by G. Orlowski Colour plate book
Publication Date: 1809
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New

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