Portfolio Of 10 Water Colours Of The St Petersburgh To Moscow Railway 1851

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10 watercolours in substantial card folder. Watercolour prints show the railway when originally opened back in 1851. Russian titles and notes. See translation below. Dear contemporaries! Dear friends! Here is a fascinating edition of a collection of watercolors by academician of architecture August Petzalt,Views of the St. Petersburg-Moscow Railway, which were painted by him in 1851.August Petzolt taught at the Academy of Art, served for some time in the Department of Railways and brilliantly reproduced individual fathoms of the construction of the first main railway of the Russian region The watercolors of the padezhak Petzplyt were made in a single copy in the gap of the inserter Nikolai, during whose reign the construction of railways in Russia began. All these mountains of watercolors were kept in the collections of the Russian State Library and today they are presented for the first time in a new edition that defamiliarizes the authors intention as much as possible. In the

19.99 GBP