Kamchatka and Siberia

Lot 4
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Lot 4 | Kamchatka and Siberia
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$ 15 000 – 25 000
Kamchatka and Siberia
Watercolor album, c.1808
KAMCHATKA AND SIBERIA – Album of six watercolor drawings depicting Kamchatka and Siberia in the late 18th century, extensively captioned in Dutch, c.1808.

Splendid original watercolors depicting coastal life in Kamchatka and Siberia as it was seen by Cook, Sarychev and Chappe d’Auteroche in the second half of the 18th century. The scenes derive from the engravings of these explorers, but combined in new ways and with considerable skill in preserving ethnographic details. There are extensive manuscript notes in Dutch on the verso of each drawing. In some cases, the notes detail the source of an illustration, but they also provide additional information about the peoples and topography of the region. Although mostly undated, the last drawing bears a date of 1808. The drawings comprise:
1. “Gericht der stad Bolcheretskoi in Kamtschatka en ein Man, Reirende in en Winter.” This is a combination of two plates from the atlas to Cook’s voyages, “A Man of Kamtschatka Travelling in Winter” and “A View at Bolcheretzkoi in Kamtschatka.” It shows sled dogs, canoe building, and penned livestock.
2. “Gerigt van de Stad en Haven van St. Petrus en St. Paulus aan Kamtschatka.” After the plate from Cook’s voyages: “A View of the Town and Harbour at St. Peter and St. Paul, in Kamtschatka.”
3. “Gericht der Stad Tobolsk, in Siberiën.” After the view of Tobolsk in Chappe d’Auteroche’s voyage.
4. “Gericht der Vesting auf Sterkte Sueden - Kolymsk en der Rivier Kolÿma.” After a plate in Sarychev’s voyages.
5. Untitled. After the plate from Cook’s voyages: “Summer and Winter Habitations, in Kamtschatka."
6. “Gericht van de Sterkte (of Vesting) Werchue - Kolÿmsk, en van de Rivier Jasjaschna.” After a plate in Sarychev’s voyages.

Oblong folio (269 x 415mm). Album comprising six pen and ink and watercolor drawings on laid paper (some very minor edge-wear, second drawing with trimmed caption from another drawing at top). Modern quarter morocco, morocco cover label (light rubbing).Siberia
Kamchatka
Arctic
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