print
- Museum number
- 1882,0708.267.1-2
- Title
- Object: Vue de la Neva vers l'occident entre l'Eglise de St Isaac et les batimens du corps des cadets
- Description
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View downstream on two plates, with St. Isaac's church (now demolished) on the far left, and beyond it a palace that belonged to the Chancellor A P Bestuzhev-Ryumin (now demolished), on the right, the palace of Alexander Menshikov (now part of the Hermitage); a pontoon bridge spanning the foreground, with troops walking across and carts and carriages being driven across. 1753
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1753
- Dimensions
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Height: 490 millimetres
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Width: 1377 millimetres (both plates)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a series of twelve views published to mark the 50th anniversary of the building of St Petersburg, done using Valeriani's camera obscura.
For a short article on the series, see Larissa Salmina-Haskell, 'St. Petersburg in Oxford', Oxford Art Journal, Vol.1, pp.50-52
Also see Richard Harprath 'Sankt Petersburg und Umgebung in Russischen Veduten 1753-1761: Zwei Kupferstichfolgen nach Michail Ivanovič Machaev', Munich 1992, no.6
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1882
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1882,0708.267.1-2