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[Ready for the Hunt.]
[by Pyotr Petrovich Solokov.]
[St Petersburgh: Franz Felten, 1873.]
Chromolithograph, trimmed to image and laid on card as issued, image 345 x 455mm (13½ x 18"), Cyrillic publisher's label on reverse. Bottom right corner of backing card cracked.
Hunters getting ready to leave for the hunt, one stroking the borzoi who has jumped up on him. A plate from Series 2 (of three) of ''Russian Hunting'', a collection of twelve scenes by Pyotr Petrovich Solokov. Although Solokov's signature appears in the plate in Cyrillic, there is no title other than the English version (as above), written in pencil under the image, translated from the printed cover of the series. Solokov (1821-99), a painter of Saint Petersburg, worked in watercolour, producing portraits and hunting scenes like these, as well as some book illustrations. In 1877 he was a correspondent during the Russo-Turkish War and was wounded at the Siege of Pleven; he was awarded the Cross of St. George for bravery.
[Ref: 51610] £350.00
[St Petersburgh: Franz Felten, 1873.]
Chromolithograph, trimmed to image and laid on card as issued, image 345 x 455mm (13½ x 18"), Cyrillic publisher's label on reverse. Bottom right corner of backing card cracked.
Hunters getting ready to leave for the hunt, one stroking the borzoi who has jumped up on him. A plate from Series 2 (of three) of ''Russian Hunting'', a collection of twelve scenes by Pyotr Petrovich Solokov. Although Solokov's signature appears in the plate in Cyrillic, there is no title other than the English version (as above), written in pencil under the image, translated from the printed cover of the series. Solokov (1821-99), a painter of Saint Petersburg, worked in watercolour, producing portraits and hunting scenes like these, as well as some book illustrations. In 1877 he was a correspondent during the Russo-Turkish War and was wounded at the Siege of Pleven; he was awarded the Cross of St. George for bravery.
[Ref: 51610] £350.00