![[A Town Carriage.]](jpegs/55966.jpg)
[A Town Carriage.]
AOrlowski 20.
Lithog de J. Beggrow, St. Petersburg [c.1821.]
A rare lithograph, with a crown stamp on right. Printed area 400 x 575mm (15¾ x 22¾"). Small margins
A four-wheeled Droshky carriage drawn by two horses, carrying a driver and passenger with a monocle through a town, 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.
[Ref: 55966] £680.00
Lithog de J. Beggrow, St. Petersburg [c.1821.]
A rare lithograph, with a crown stamp on right. Printed area 400 x 575mm (15¾ x 22¾"). Small margins
A four-wheeled Droshky carriage drawn by two horses, carrying a driver and passenger with a monocle through a town, 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.
[Ref: 55966] £680.00