[A Traveler in a Kibitka]
AOrlowski 19.
Imprimé à St Petersbourg chez Beggrow in ink [c.1821.]
A rare lithograph, with a crown stamp on right. Printed area 400 x 575mm (15¾ x 22¾").
A trioka / Kibitka, hooded cart (three-horses abreast) sledge being driven down a rustic road, after Alexander Osipovich Orlowsky (1777-1832). After fighting with the partisan group led by Thadeusz Kosciuszko in the Polish liberation movement and uprising of 1794, Orlowski moved to Russia in 1802 where he became a court artist for the Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich in St Petersburg. In 1816 he was one of the first artists to produce lithographs in Russia for state Russian Museum.
[Ref: 55965] £680.00
Imprimé à St Petersbourg chez Beggrow in ink [c.1821.]
A rare lithograph, with a crown stamp on right. Printed area 400 x 575mm (15¾ x 22¾").
A trioka / Kibitka, hooded cart (three-horses abreast) sledge being driven down a rustic road, after Alexander Osipovich Orlowsky (1777-1832). After fighting with the partisan group led by Thadeusz Kosciuszko in the Polish liberation movement and uprising of 1794, Orlowski moved to Russia in 1802 where he became a court artist for the Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich in St Petersburg. In 1816 he was one of the first artists to produce lithographs in Russia for state Russian Museum.
[Ref: 55965] £680.00