print
- Museum number
- 1882,0708.270.1-2
- Title
- Object: Vue d'Oranienbaum, maison de Plaisance de Sa Majesté Imperiale de toutes les Russies &c. &c. &c. sur le Golfe de Finlande vis à vis de Cronstadt
- Description
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View of the Oranienbaum Palace from the north over two plates, with a ship arriving to left and various ladies and gentlemen in the foreground. 1761
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1761
- Dimensions
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Height: 492 millimetres
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Width: 1347 millimetres (both plates)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a series of eight views of the country palaces around of St Petersburg, possibly 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.15
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1882
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1882,0708.270.1-2