[A Troika.]
AOrlowski 1819.
Lithog de J. Beggrow. [c.1821.]
A rare lithograph, with a crown stamp on right. Printed area 400 x 575mm (15¾ x 22¾"), very large margins.
A trioka (i.e. three-horses abreast) carrying an officer being driven past a village, 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: 55968] £650.00
Lithog de J. Beggrow. [c.1821.]
A rare lithograph, with a crown stamp on right. Printed area 400 x 575mm (15¾ x 22¾"), very large margins.
A trioka (i.e. three-horses abreast) carrying an officer being driven past a village, 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: 55968] £650.00