drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1939,0711.3.14
- Description
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Baron Paul l'Orrich (?) Schilling, from an album of portraits and caricatures illustrating Russian and foreign diplomatic circles; whole-length, seen from behind, seated on a chair, holding a cooked fowl on a fork. 1835
Watercolour, over graphite
- Production date
- 1835
- Dimensions
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Height: 130 millimetres
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Width: 105 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The album was rebound in the BM retaining the original covers. See MS notes in Russian and English pasted into the back of the album, and Curator's Commentary for 1939-7-11-3(1). For Baron P L Schilling, an acquaintance of Pushkin, Vyazeansky and the brothers Turgenev see Ostaf'ev Archives, Vol.1, p.150 + p.536 and Vol.2, pp.70, 95 + 337; A Short History of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, p.95; Fonton, Memoirs, Vol.2, pp.20-22.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1939,0711.3.14
