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- Museum number
- 1882,0708.269.1-2
- Title
- Object: Vue des bords de la Neva en descendent la riviere entre le Palais d'hyver de Sa Majesté Imperiale & les batimens de l'Academie des Sciences
- Description
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View downstream on two plates, on the left is Rastrelli's first Winter Palace (now demolished), the Admiralty and St Isaac's Church; on the right, the Academy of Sciences; the Kunstkammer, and twelve collegia (from the side); the pontoon bridge in the distance; ships on the river. 1753
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1753
- Dimensions
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Height: 495 millimetres
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Width: 1373 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.2
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1882
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1882,0708.269.1-2