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ORLOWSKI, G. [Alexander] (1777-1832)

Lot 215
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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ID 992826
Lot 215 | ORLOWSKI, G. [Alexander] (1777-1832)
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£ 3 000 – 5 000
ORLOWSKI, G. [Alexander] (1777-1832)

Russian Cries in Correct Portraiture from Drawings Done on the Spot and Now in the Possession of the Right Honourable Lord Kinnaird. [With:— The Costume of the Russian Army]. London: Edward Orme, [1807 and] 1809 [both suites watermarked 1824].

Only edition of Orlowski's charming pictures of Russian street-vendors in costume. The vendors are depicted hawking cranberry liquor, kvass, tea, whitemeal loaves, cookware, and meats; also depicted is a water-carrier and a peasant in his tulup. This work was produced for Lord Kinnaird whose library was renowned as one of the foremost private libraries of its time in Great Britain. Although the title page attributes the prints to a G. Orlowski, the British Library ascribes the Russian Cries to Alexander Orlowski; the initial G. being interpreted as representing the title gospodit. In the present copy, there are a further 8 plates to that recorded in Colas and Lipperheide. Tooley describes a version of the Russian Cries into which the frontispiece and eight costume plates from Orme's Costume of the Russian Army (1807) are inserted, and accordingly counts eighteen plates altogether, thus corresponding with the present copy offered here (without the additional frontispiece). Bobins I, 205; Colas 2253; Hiler 67; Lipperheide Kaa 26; Tooley 350.



Quarto (367 x 270mm) Engraved title page with large contemporary hand-coloured vinette by J. Swaine, 16 aquatint plates, coloured by a contemporary hand, the first 8 engraved by J. Godby, a further 8 plates inserted from Costume of the Russian Army (1807), (marginal finger-soiling and light spotting concentrated to margins, short split at foot of gutter affecting a number of plates but without loss, lacking frontispiece from Costumes of the Russian Army). Contemporary brown half-morocco over brown marbled boards, titled label pasted onto front board (extremities rubbed). Provenance: unknown sale, lot 272 (sticker to front board).





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