drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1939,0711.3.57
- Description
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The first Russian diplomatic representative in Greece in 1831, from an album of portraits and caricatures illustrating Russian and foreign diplomatic circles; four men, including two sitting at tables, the envoy Count Viktor Panin, sifting through papers, and the secretary Prince Aleksyei Dimitrievich Saltvikov, a man entering with a letter at r. 1831
Watercolour, over graphite
- Production date
- 1831 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 210 millimetres
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Width: 330 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 Saltvikov see Russian Biographical Dictionary, 'Sabangeev Samislov', p.72-3.
- 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
- 1939,0711.3.57
