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Portraits of the Different Tribes of Russian Cossacks, in Marching Order.
Portraits of the Different Tribes of Russian Cossacks, in Marching Order.
Drawn from the Life by Hess. Engraved by Clark & Dubourg.
Published & Sold July 1st 1813, by Edw. Orme, Engraver, [Printseller] & Publisher, Bond St. (Corner of Brook St.) London.
Very fine aquatint with hand colour. 300 x 455mm (11¾ x 18"), with large margins, paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1810. Crease.
A party of Ural Cossacks with their Ataman David Martemianovich Borodin (1760-1860) during the Austro-Russian Italian and Swiss Campaign in 1799, led by the Russian Marshal Alexander Suvorov. The original painting by Carl Adolph Heinrich Hess (1769-1849) was sold by Christies in 2003, with the identification of Borodin from Nicholas Touroverov's 'Cossacks in Works by Foreign Artists', 1939.
Not in Abbey. See Christie's Live Auction 1286, Lot 87 for the painting.
[Ref: 59133]   £580.00  
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